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Microfiche 

Series. 


CIHM/ICMH 
Collection  de 
microfiches. 


Canadian  Institute  for  Historical  Micioreproductions  /  Institut  Canadian  de  microreproductions  historiques 


Tschnical  and  Bibliographic  Notas/Notas  tachniquas  at  bibliographiquas 


Tha  Inttituta  has  attamptad  to  obtain  tha  bast 
original  copy  availabia  for  filming.  Faaturas  of  this 
copy  which  may  ba  bibliographically  uniqua, 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagas  in  tha 
reproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  changa 
tha  usual  mathod  of  filming,  ara  chackad  balow. 


□    Colourad  covars/ 
Couvartura  da  coulaur 


r~n    Covars  damagad/ 


Couvartura  andommagte 


□   Covars  rastorad  and/or  laminatad/ 
Couvartura  restaur^  at/ou  palliculAa 

□    Covar  titia  missing/ 
La  titra  da  couvartur'j  manqua 


r~~|    Colourad  maps/ 


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Cartas  giographiquas  an  coulaur 

Colourad  ink  (i.a.  othar  than  blua  or  black)/ 
Encra  da  coulaur  (i.a.  autra  qua  blaua  ou  noira) 


I — I    Colourad  platas  and/or  illustrations/ 


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Planchas  at/ou  illustrations  an  coulaur 

Bound  with  othar  material/ 
Rail*  avac  d'autras  documents 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

La  re  liura  serrie  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distorsion  l«  long  de  la  marge  int^rieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajoutiaft 
lore  d'une  restauratlon  apparaiosont  dana  la  texte. 
mais.  lorsqua  cela  6tait  possible,  ces  prges  n'ont 
pas  M  filmias. 

Additional  comments:/ 
Commentairas  supplimentaires; 


L'Institut  a  microfilm*  la  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  iti  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
de  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  paut-Atre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographiqua,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  mAthoda  normala  de  filmaga 
sont  indiquis  ci-dessous. 

□   Coloured  pages/ 
Pagea  de  couleur 

□   Pages  damaged/ 
Pages  endommagias 

□    Pages  restored  and/or  laminated/ 
Pages  restaurias  et/ou  pelliculies 

0   Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed/ 
Pages  dicolories.  tacheties  ou  piquies 

□Pages  detached/ 
Pages  ditachias 

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Quality  in^gala  de  {'impression 

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Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponible 


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r~~l    Includes  supplementary  material/ 

I — I   Only  edition  available/ 


Pages  wholly  or  partiaKy  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totalement  ou  partieilement 
obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata.  une  pelure, 
etc..  ont  it*  filmtes  A  nouveau  de  fapon  ii 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


This  item  is  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  checked  below/ 

Ce  document  est  film*  au  taux  de  reduction  indiqu*  ci-dessous. 


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Th«  copy  filmed  h«r«  has  bMn  reproduead  thank* 
to  tha  ganarotity  of: 

La  Biblioth^ue  de  la  Villa  da  Montrtel 


L'axampiaira  film*  fut  raproduit  grica  k  ia 
ginirosit*  da: 

La  Bibiiothkiua  da  la  Villa  da  Montrtel 


Tha  imagas  appaaring  hara  ara  tha  baat  quality 
possibia  considaring  tha  condition  and  iaglblllty 
of  tha  original  copy  and  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  spacificatlons. 


Original  copias  in  printad  papar  covara  ara  fllmad 
beginning  with  tha  front  covar  and  anding  on 
tha  laat  paga  with  a  printad  or  illuatratad  impras- 
sion,  or  tha  back  covar  whan  appropriate.  All 
othar  original  copias  ara  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printad  or  illustrated  imprea- 
sion,  and  ending  on  the  laat  paga  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  eech  microfiche 
shall  contain  tha  symbol  -^>  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  ▼  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  applies. 

IMaps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  ara  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  aa  many  framea  aa 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  images  suivantas  ont  *tA  raproduites  avac  ia 
plus  grand  soin,  compta  tenu  de  ia  condition  at 
de  la  nattet*  de  I'exemplaira  film*,  et  en 
conformity  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exemplairas  originaux  dont  la  couvarture  vtk 
papier  eat  imprimte  sont  fiimte  en  commenpant 
par  la  premier  plat  at  en  terminent  soit  par  ia 
darnlAre  poge  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'Impression  ou  d'iilustration,  soit  par  la  second 
plat,  selon  ie  cas.  Tous  lea  autrea  exemplairas 
originaux  sont  fiimte  en  commenpant  par  la 
pramiire  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impreaaion  ou  d'iilustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  darniAre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  dee  symbolea  suhrants  apparattra  sur  la 
darniAre  Image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  Ie 
caa:  la  symbols  -*- signlfie  "A  SUiVRE",  Is 
synibole  V  signifle  "FIN". 

Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Atre 
filmto  k  das  ttux  da  rMuctlon  diffirents. 
Lorsque  Ie  docirment  est  trop  grand  pour  itre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  ciich*,  11  est  film*  A  partir 
de  I'angia  supftrieur  gauche,  de  gauche  h  droite, 
et  de  haut  an  bas,  an  prenant  la  nombra 
d'imagea  nicassaira.  Lea  diagrammes  suivanta 
illuatrant  ia  mMhode. 


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TWO  PARTS,        .  /    ■?       ■ 

DELIVERED  JULY  23,  1812,  ON  THE^   ^  ~T 

PUBLIC  FAST,     fl^\j 

1DHE   CHAPEIi  OF  YALE    COLLEGE. 


BY 


TIMOTHY  BWIGHT.D.D.LLD. 


FBCSIDENT  OE  THA.T  SEMINAB7. 


Pt>BIJSg#y  AT  THE  REC^UEST  OF  THE  STUDENTS,  AND  OTHERS. 


J^EW'H. 


PUBLISHED  BY  HOWE   AND    DEFOREST. 
<OLD  ALSO  BT  A;T.  GOODRICH  ANDCO^NO.  124,  6ROADWAV,  NEW-TORS. 


Printed  bj'  J.  Seymour,  49,  John-street,  New- York. 


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Isaiah  xxi.  U,  12. 

1  The  burden  ofDunmh.    He  calleth  to  me  out  ofSeir,  Watch- 

'  marii  what  of  the  night  ?  JFatchman,  what  of  the  night  ? 

The  Watchman  sate?,  The  morning  cometh  ;  and  also  the  night. 
If  ye  will  inquirCf  inquire  ye ;  return  ;  come. 


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This  passage  of  Scripture  is  unconnected  with  any 
thing",  which  either  precedes  or  follows  it.  The  first 
w  merely  a  title,  or  caption,  denoting  the  coun- 
try concWning  which  the  prediction  is  uttered :  "  The 
burden  orf)umah ;"  or  more  properly,  as  it  is  render- 
ed by  Bifliop  Lowthy  "  The  oracle  concerning  Dti- 

ih^yjjfimah  was  the  country  of  IdumtBa,  or  Edam  ; 
which  was  inhabited  by  Esau,  and  his  descendants. 
"  He  calleth  to  me  out  of  Seir.''  Seir,  as  you  know, 
was  a  mountain  in  that  country ;  the  place  originally 
chosen  by  Esau  for  his  residence  ;  whence  his  posteri- 
ty spread  over  the  neighbouring  region.  They  were 
often  at  war  with  the  people  of  Judah.  Saul  at- 
tacked them,  and  vexed  them:  1  Samuel  xiv.  47. 
David  subdued  them,  and  put  garrisons  in  their  for- 
tresses ;  so  that  they  became  his  tributaries  :  2  Samuel 
viii,  14,     1,  Chronicles  xviii,  12-  !3.     In  the  da^s  of 


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Sobyinon    Hadad,  one  of  tho  royal  family,  who  had 
*S;  Se  invasion  of  Joab  into  W-  .«d 
Id   e-esublished  himself  i«  the  kingdom :  whence^t 
rid  seem,  he  did  much  mischief  to  the  peopW  /.- 
rael     In  the  time  of  Jehoshaphat,  Ihey  united  with  the 
X—.  and  the  MoMes,  to  invade  the  kmgdom 
of  Judah      But  tl,e  Lord  set  amhcshmmts  agmfislthe 
1uwJ.of  4m».o«,  Moah,  and  U^^  l^r,  «,Mch 
tTZne against  Judah;  and  the,j  mre  smitten :  J»r 
ZclMrmo,  Am,n<m,and  Moab,  stood  up  aummt 

Iv  broken  down  for  a  course  of  years.  Ihere  was 
Ctare  informed,  no  king  in  Edom :  a  deputy  ^ 
S  In  the  days  ^{Jekoram,  the  son  of  Jehoshaphat, 
Srev^Uedfrol  u,ulerthe  /.and  o/J««.  and  made 
»  kingovertemselves:  and  although  JeAor«mde. 

feated  them  in  battle,  they  ^'"l/TT  1  Stnd' 
nendence.    Amaziah  afterwards  attacked  fm.  and 
Ct^edaCOOO  of  their  men.     StJUeyi— g 
anindependentpeople,  till  they  were  fi»»"y  ¥;«  J^ 

Te l^mSdTaud  soon  ceased  to  be  a  d.stmct  peo- 

''' Of  th.s  nation,  one,  in  the  name  of  *e  '-e^.  ^^^ 
to  the  prophet  Isaiah  from  mount  Setr.  Or  perhaps 
I  caKntended  to  be  from  the  whol.  nat„^^ 

■f,c.A  acrreeablv  to  the  manner  of  writing,  whicn  is 
rSS  S  theprophets  ofihe  OldTesUment^ 
That  the  call  is  d.rected  to  W  h.msel^tt.e.e  can 
be  no  doubt:  because  he  asserts  .t  m  the  mo,t  dne.t 


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terms,  <'  He  calkth  to  me."  The  prophet  is  addressed 
under  the  fij^urative  character  of  a  Watchman  ;  i.  e.  a 
watchman,  appointed  by  God  for  the  nations  of  the 
earth.  As  his  predictions  were  successively  uttered 
against  many  nations,  and  might  be  expected  to  in- 
clude many  more,  the  Idumteans,  who  were  kindred 
to  the  Jews,  and  lived  in  their  neighbourhood,  are 
very  naturally  exhibited  as  wishing  to  know,  from  this 
inspired  minister  of  the  true  God,  what  were  the 
events,  which  were  to  befall  themselves  j  and  to  learn 
whether  the  prophet,  with  the  eye  of  Revelation,  saw 
^ttiy  danger  approaching  to  them.  Tl  is  the  more 
natural,  as  he  had  just  been  predicting  the  ruin  of  all 
the  neighbouring  countries ;  of  Egypt,  of  the  country 
of  the  Philistines,  iiyria,  Judtea,  Moab,  and  Babylon. 
After  these  predictions,  the  people  of  IdumtsBa  could 
hardly  fail  of  trembling,  lest  their  own  destiny  should 
be  next  announced,  or  of  anxiously  inquiring  of  what 
nature  it  should  be. 

The  inquiry,  so  solicitously  made  by  this  voice  from 
Mount  Seir,  is, «  Watchman,  what  of  the  night  ?  Watch- 
man,  what  of  the  night  ?"  "  The  nigM'  here  denotes, 
I  apprehend,  merely  the  period  of  time  for  which  the 
watchman  was  set  as  an  inspector  of  the  passing 
events.  In  familiar  language,  it  was  the  prophet^ 
watch,  or  season  of  watching.  This  is  the  season 
concerning  which  they  inquire  ;  and  the  occurrences 
pf  which,  so  far  as  they  respected  themselves,  they 
were  desirous  to  know.  The  repetition  of  the  inquiry 
shows,  that  they  ask  eagerly,  and  anxiously,  because 
they  are  deeply  alarmed  by  the  miserable  end  of  the 
surrounding  nations  concerning  the  fate  of  their  own. 

The  answer  of  the  prophet  is,  like  the  question. 


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..ornim  cmneth ;  and  also  the  night    If  ye  mil  m. 
morning  cmntu  ,  ,,  moj-wtw^r,  </»« 

auire,  inquire  ye :  return,  come.       ^'  if 

quue,  •"«/«*      y  .     Ccrintures  familiar  hgu- 

light,  and  the  day,  are  in  the  ^^"P^"  ,      ^ 

r«tive  expressions  to  denote  prosperity.     ^M  ana 

:rt\e  p    Ltcar  The'  prophet  .a,    «.re 
forbecoJdered  as  saying  to  the  people  of  l^r, 

!r.  «nrf  «feo  the  niyht,  i.  e.  a  seaso..  of  prosper,  y  . 
l^eiy  betore?o„,  and  w.U  be  succeeded  Jy  a 
"a^n  of  adversity.     The  remaming  words  of  he 
rer.a,IthinUena..Uy^£^^^^ 

;rsr:atoi^::-/4'««tf-: 

^S  y  u  Ik!-  dlpa.^d.  ever  s.nce  the  days  oi  your 
iSander.    Come  again,  and  renew  your  aUeg. 

TlT^P^ehend,  is  the  whole  ~^^ 
very  concise,  very  figurative,  and  theretore  ve.7 

scure,  passage  of  Scnp*""--  ^      ;„  ^y,  ,,„d  ,t  the' 
A  relieious  assembly,  gatnerea 

pient  Lment,  can  hardly  »'«  -PP-^-^Jl: 

•    *  «<•  ;«*1iffprpnce  with  respect  to  me  exis»ims 
TtLworirid  particular^  of  their  own  country 

tt  :::t-e  l  u.,.  ^^s  the  ^-^^ 

human  race  been   so  ext,-aord,nary  ;  *«JvorW  s 
sbaUen,  or  its  changes  so  numero.,^^^^^^^^ 

:;^:rmrb-pp^:a  *o  h.e  ..h.  he^^-or 
UpriLtnndin^,  nor  eyes,  nor  ears.     In  additio 
th^other  solemn  and  iU-boamg  events  oi  ihe  ^ 


all 


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period,  to  use  the  language  of  our  chief  magistraie, 
*  the  righteous  Providence  of  God  has  permitted  the 
nation  to  which  we  belong  to  be  engaged  in  an  of- 
fensive war,  the  multiplied  evils  of  which  must  be 
felt  by  all,  but  its  end  cannot  be  discovered  by  human 
agency.'     Our  own  cause,  as  well  as  that  of  the  rest 
of  mankind,  is  now  in  agitation.     Even  if  we  have 
been  able  to  behold  with  indifference  the  general  con- 
vulsion of  the  world,  and  to  see  nation  after  nation 
blotted  out  from  under  heaven,  it  can   scarcely  be 
credible,  that  the   most  stupid  among  us  can  fail  of 
being  serious,  solemn,  and  solicitous,  when  our  own 
case  is  under  trial,  and  when  our  allotments  are  now, 
perhaps,  to  be  finally  set^d.  I  well  know,  that  there 
are  thoughtless,  giddy,  empty  minds,  who  on  the  one 
hand  consider  this  event  as  a  victory,  and  on  the  other 
as  a   defeat,  of  their  own  party ;  and  extend  their 
views  no  further.     I  also  know,  that  there  are  men  of 
passion  and  violence,  who  feel  satisfied  with  carrying, 
or  mortified  with  failing  to  carry,  a  point ;  that  their 
views,  and  their  horizon,  terminate  here;   and  that 
even  their  wishes  extend  no  further  than  to  the  gratifi* 
cation  of  their  feelings.     To  persons  of  this  descrip- 
tion it  is  in  vain  to  u%e  porisequences;  although  con- 
sequences, in  almost  all  case:^,  involve  whatever  is 
important  in  each  case ;  while  the  objects  at  which 
they  aim   have  in  themselves  no  importance  at  all. 
A   sober   man,   especially   when   possessing   an   en- 
lightened mind,  will  expand  his  thoughts  beyond  the 
present  moment,  and  the   passing  event;    and  will 
look  forward,  in  every  solemn  situation,  with  intense 
anxiety,  to  discern,  as  far  as  he  may,  the  effects  of 
those  transactions,  in  which  he  is  now  interested ;  and 
Wiii  regularly  perceive,  that  that  which  is  to  come. 


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freauentlv  ffives  the  deepest  colouring  to  that  ^kcj. 
H^Zl^ni,  .hether^cBirabie  or  »nde,.«bl^.  J- 

^elnt  Ss  ;'and  are  eitlr  indifferent  co„™g 
^^  .      *    ^^^*.  or  tftke  it  for  eranted,  that,  when  it 
r^e;^ uXd^tt^l'to  thL  incUnations.    Men 
T^::2r  des  Jption.  — r  that  wh.ch  «  done 
if  consistent  with  the  revealed  m\\  of  God,  as  desir 
able,   only  when  the  events  which  U  draws  m  .U 
T^;  I'also  desirable.    The  leading  memb«-s^ 
the  ruling  party  in   Or^t  BriU.,n,  -^^^^^J^ 
fore  the  American  revolution,  hugged  themselves  on 
hrirtcis  in  being  able  to  force  through  the  Jar- 
SLent  their  favourite  measures  for  h»™M«S  A^^- 
lonies.     Chathan,,  with  an  f^"^  ^^  J^^^o^ 
and  with  a  prophetic  voice  declared,  the  disastrovra 
iquences,  which  have  since  followed  these  darhng 

"  Tr;;riod  m  wWch  we  live,  is,  in  my  own  belief. 
Jked'ont  in  prophecy  as  a  part  of  that  wh.ch  is  .n- 

M  within  V#.«io«  «/'*«  «--  ^^-J^ 

tfftk  of  these  I  consider  as  unquestionably  poured 

ftatleWor-io-     Accord-ng  *»  this  scheme 

.e  are  now  under  ,;ie.i.a  or  «*e^«^^f^     As  - 

treatises  on  the  propnecies  mj^ 

i  Ae  Jijmvmi      ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^.^  vialupm 
terms 


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darhmess  ;  and  they  gnawed  their  tongupsfor  paint  and 
bksi)Jiemed  the  God   of  Heaven,  because  of  their 
pains  find  their  sores,  and  repented  not  of  their  deeds.** 
That  the  Reformation  was  an  event,  perfectly  an- 
swering to  this  prophecy,  will,   I    suppose,  not  be 
questioned ;  as  without  violence  it  plainly  cannot. — • 
The  seat  of  the  beast  is  literally  hiu  throne,  and  *»/«i- 
hdically   his  |)ower.     Every    one  knows,   that   thii 
great  providential  dispensation  was  directed  immedi- 
ately against  the  power  of  the   Romish  hierarchy.— 
The  Pontiff,  his  court,,  his  ordinary  and  extraordinaiy 
agents,  his  clergy  universally,  the   secular   princes, 
and  the  immense  body  of  people  under  his  control, 
were  all  agitated  by  a  general  convulsion.     A  large 
part  of  the  dominions,  over  which  he  held  a  spiritual 
sceptre,  revolted  ;  and,  notwithstanding  the  immense 
efforts,  made  by  the  Emperor  of  Germany,  and  his 
coadjutors,  for  the  destruction  of  the  Protestant  cause, 
were  finally  rescued  from  their  thraldom,  and  estab- 
lished  in    the   full   possession   of   religious    libeity. 
TttE  kingdom  of  tite  Beast  was,  at  this  time,  full  of 
darkness.      The  hierarchy  had  always  been  distin- 
guished for  the  attribute,  which  we  style  cunning ; 
and,  it  must  be  confessed,  exercised  it  in  a  degree,  to 
which  there  has  been  no  parallel.     But  at  this  time 
their  councils  were  weak  and  contemptible :  weak, 
as  they  were  wavering,  and  contradictory ;  contempt- 
ible, as  they  displayed  that  mixture  of  fear  and  false- 
hood, which  forms  the  lowest  trait  of  despicableness 
in  the  human  character.     His  kingdom,  also,  was  full 
of  darkness  in  another  sense.     It  was  tilled  with  sore 
mortification.      The   hierarchy,  in  all  its  branches, 
saw  its  power  greatly,  and  finally,  lessened ;  not  a 
small  part  of  its  wealth  irrecoverably  diverted  into 


|;^ 


(    10    ) 

Other  channels ;  and  a  body  of  men  raised  up  in  the 
heart  of  Christendom,  whose  number,  weight,  and 
talents,  were  formidable  to  all  its  interests,  and  threat- 
ened  even  its  existence.     That  these  men  blasphemed 
the  God  o/"  Heaven  because  of  their  pains  and  their 
sores  ;  i.  e.  because  of  their  extreme  mortifications ; 
we  cannot  doubt :  and  we  know,  that   they  repented 
mt  oftlmr  deed^.     In  the  early  par',  of  his  career, 
Luther  would  have  been  satisfied  with  a  Reformation, 
in  those  things  K.erely,  which  w^re  gross  and  mon- 
strous :  such  was  his  reverence  for  the  system  at  large. 
But  they  had  so  often  rolled  these,  as  sweet  morsels, 
nnuer  their  tongues,  that  they  could  not  consent  to 
eive  theia  up.     The  most  heretical  doctrine,  ever 
preached  bv  any  Reformer,  in  the  view  of  the  Ro- 
mish  church,  was  the  obligation  to  receive  truth  :  tha 
nioiit  heretical  practice,  ever  adopted,  was  the  renun- 
ciation of  sin. 

The  account  of  the  sixth  vial  is  gl^en  in  these 
terms.    "  x\nd  the   sixth  angel  poured  out  his  vial 
"  upon  the  great  river   Euphrates;  and  the  water 
«  thereof  was  dried  up,  that  the  way  of  the  kings  of 
'<  the  East  might  be  prepared.     And  I  saw  three  un- 
«  clean  spirits,  like  frogs,  come  out  of  the  mouth  of 
«  the  drao-on,  and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  beast,  and 
«  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  false  prophet.     For  they 
«  are  the  spirits  of  devils,  working  miracles,  which 
"  go  forth  unto  the  kings  of  the  earth,  and  of  the 
«  whole  world,  to  gather  them  to  the  battle  of  that 
«  great  day  of  God  Almighty.     Behold,  I  come  as  a 
"  thief.     Blessed  is  he  that  watcheth,  and  keepetb  his 
"  garments,  lest  he  walk  naked,  and  ihey  see  his 
«  shame.     And   he    gathered  them  together  into  a 

tonsjue,  Armageddon." 


place. 


ca 


lied  in  the  Hebn 


■^.-\ 


V 


(   n   ) 

This  angel,  we  are  told,  poured  otit  his  vial  upon 
the  great  river  Euphrates  ;  and  the  water  thereof  ims 
dried  up,  that  the  way  of  the  kings  of  the  East  might 
he  prepared.     The  Euphrates,  in  the  literal  sense,  was 
the  source  of  the  wealth,  strength,  and  safety,  of  the 
literal  Babylon.     It  ran  round  the  walls,  and  through 
the  centre,  of  that  city ;  and  by  Cyrus  and  Cyaxares,  the 
literal  kinfjS  of  the  East  who  destroyed  Babylon,  was 
dried  up  in  these  parts  of  its  channel,  by  being  turned 
into  a. lake  higher  up  the  country.  The  symbolical  Ba- 
bylon, or  the  Babylon  of  the  Apocah/pse,  is  the  Mo^ 
mish  spiritual  Empire.     The  symbolical  E.vphrates, 
here  mentioned,  is  a  source  of  wealth,  strength,  and 
safety,  to  that  empire.     To  dry  up  this  Euphrates,  is 
to  diminish,  or  destroy,  that  source  of  wealth,  strength, 
and  safety.     The  symbolical  kings  of  the  East,  are 
those,  whoever  they  may  be,  who  shall  destroy  this 
spiritual  Babylon.      Several  commentators  have  sup- 
posed this  language  to  denote  certain  princes,  ivho 
are  to  come  from  the  East :  making  the  phrase  literal; 
This  zigzag  course  between  literal  and  symbolical 
language  has,  as  it  appears  to  me,  had  no  other  influ- 
ence, than  merely  to  perplex  prophecy,  and  to  render 
obscure  what  was  otherwise  plain.     1  he  kings  of  the 
East  mean,  here,  noilung  but  the  destroyers  of  the  spi- 
ritual Babylon.  Had  the  names,  Cyrus  and  Cyaxares, 
or  Cyrus  and  Darius,  been  set  down,  instead  of  the 
kings  of  the  East,  as  they  might  have  been  with  strict 
propriety,  because  literally  these  are  the  very  persons 
intended ;  then  we  might  with  as  strict  propriety  have 
expected   Cyrus  and  Darius  to  be  raised  from  the 
dead,  in  order  to  destroy  the  spiritual  Babylon,  as  we 
may  now  expect  kings,  or  any  other  persons,  tq  come 


(     12     ) 

from  thi  East  for  this  purpose.    When  this  source,  or 
these  sources,  of  the  wealth,  strength,  and  safety,  were 
dried  up,  or  perhaps  while  they  were  drying  up;  in 
other  words,  when  sufficient  preparation  was  made ; 
the  prophet  saw  three  unclean  spirits^  of  an  extraordi- 
nary character,  appear,  and  act,  as  important  agents 
in  this  great  work  of  providence.     These  spirits  had 
the  following  remarkable  characteristics.    They  came 
mt  of  the  mouth  of  the  dragon  i  that  is,  the  secular 
persecuting  power  of  this  spiritual  empire ;  and  out 
of  the  mouth  of  the  beast,  or  ecclesiastical  persecut- 
ing power  of  the  same  empire  ;  and  out  of  the  mouth 
of  the  false  prophet,  a  primary  agent  of  this  latter 
power ;  exercising  all  the  power  of  the  first  beast  6e- 
fore  him,  and  causing  the  earth,  (the  dominions  of 
the   Roman  empire,)  and  them,  who    dwell  therein^ 
to  worship  the  first  beast,  whose  deadly  wound  tvas 
heakd.    This  prophet  might  with  ease,  and  almost 
with  absolute  certainty,  be  shown  to  be  the  body  of 
monks,  or  regular  clergy,  of  the  Romish  church.    But 
the  time  will  not  allow  me  to  expatiate  on  this  part  of 
the  subject.     They  were  the  spirits  of  demons  ;.  malig- 
nant, subtle ;  hostile  to  human  happiness,  and  human 
virtue;  and  enemies  to  God   and  the  Lamb.     In 
other  words,  they  were  bitter  and  violent  enemies  to 
Christianity.     They   were   like  frogs:   base,  grovel- 
ling ;  loquacious ;  intrusive  ;  clamorous :  to  be  found 
in  every  place ;  and  pertinacious  in  their  modes  of 
action.    T^iey  wrought  miracles ;  or  did  things  which 
were  wonderful  and  astonishing.     The  great  objects^ 
of  these  spirits  is  to  deceive  the  kings  of  the  earth,  and 
of  the  whole  world.      The  end  for  which  they  are 
permitted  to  do  this,  is  that  the  kings  of  the  earthy 
i.  e.  the  »)owers  and  ooteutates  of  the  Roman  empire. 


C     13    ) 

and  many  others,  together  with  them,  may  be  assem« 
bled  to  the  battle  oj  the  great  day  of  Goj>  AJmighttf, 
The  number  thi-ee  is  a  definite  for  an  indefinite  num- 
ber ;  and  is  probably  used  because  these  imclean  spi- 
rits  were  derived  from  three  sources  ;  tlie  three  great 
powers  of  the  Romish  empire. 

The  amount,  then,  of  this  part  of  the  prophecy,  sumr 
marily  expressed,  is  the  following :  *  that  while  provu 
dence  shall  be  empUyyed  in  reduckuj  the  wealthy  strengthy 
and  safety y  of  the  Homish  empire,  a  collection  of  men^ 
cf  demon-like  character ,  polluted  and  debased,  clamo- 
rous and  intrusive,  impudent  and  obstinate,  and  posses- 
sing a  Jiend'like  hostility  to  the  Christian  religion^ 
will  spring  up  in  the  heart  of  its  dominions  ;  and  par-, 
ticuiarly  among  the  princes  and  nobles;  the  secular  and 
regular  ecclesiastics  j  who  will  combine  together  in  the 
great  business  of  deceiving  the  potentates  of  the  earth, 
or  lioman  Empire;  and  others,  also,  in  various  parts 
of  the  world;  that  these  potentates  may  be  assembled  in 
a  vast  war,  in  which  the  vengeance  of  God  will  be 
wonderfully  executed  upon  the  eminently  wicked  inJmb- 
Hants  oJ  the  countries,  included  within  its  limits;  call- 
ed, because  it  is  a  day  of  such  retribution,  « the  battle  of 
timt  great  day  of  God  Almighty r  To  this  account  is 
subjoined,  «  And  he  gathered  them  into  a  place,  called 
in  the  Hebrew  tongue,  Armageddon  ;  or  the  mountain  of 
Megiddo;  or  the  mountain  of  t/ie  Gospel*.  The 
mountain  of  Megiddo,  very  naturally  denotes  the  moun- 
tmn  of  sorrow  or  mourning  :  because  Megiddo  was  the 
place,  where  Josiah  was  slain ;  of  whom  it  is  said, 
"  And  like  unto  him  there  tvas  no  king  before  him  who 
turned  to  the  Lord  with  all  his  heart,  and  with  all  his  . 
soul,  and  with  all  his  might,  according  to  all  the  law  of 


*  ^ 


Sec  Calmot,  Cruden,  kc. 


it  I 


(    ^^    ^ 
.1      „ft^  him  arose  tJiete  any  like  him." 
Moses ;  neither  after  /»»  ^^  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^  Jentsalem 

After  his  death  >t  ^'f^ren^iah  Umeutedfor  M  , 
roeptfor  Josiah ;  and  ''^'    ^   .     ^„umspakeofJo. 

«„/.  i«  t;.e.r  ««'»^«7.''i"  Mu>U  they  are  mitten  of 
an  ordinance  m  Israel,  am  .        ^„  .^tens.ve, 

i„  (fc  L«m««««"«>«»-  J  ",,,,,,  continued,  furnishes 
.0  deep,so  >o"g. -fjj^fttense  and  unlimited 
a  most  expressive  """S^  "^  ^  ,y^^  ^„  in  question, 
sorrows,  wh.eh  wiU  now  Armageddon. 

As  denoting  «fte  moimto  «  f '''^  J^f  ^^.e  where  this 

war  will  be  earned  on ,  v./..  ^^^^^^  ^^^^  ,, 

Gospel  has  heen  K^^  '*^;2„.    probably  it  was  in- 

eommonly  f  ^f  J'™  Ue  ^eferenee,  and  to  express 
tended  to  have  th,do«^^^^^^^  ^^  this  extraor- 

both  the  place  anu  the  c,  ^^^^  .^  ^  parenthesis, 

dinary  conflict,    uo.  ^^  ^^^  rvatcheth 

u  Behold,  I  ecme  as  «  *f  J^'^  ^^  ^d,  and  they 
and  keepeth  ^'.f  ^-^f  ^J  j^'^  at  the  beginning  of 
^.  his  shame.      The  ^  „f  t^e  Kedeemer 

to  verse  IS  a  ^"'^"Xn  these  preparations  are 
to  his  foUowei-s,  that,  ^J  .^^  -.ritual  B«6yto», 
„.ade  for  the  ^»''JXy:!Z.Uy  ;  as  a  thief 

l,e  will  -«-^;jf;.t 'd?s  roy  this  grand  human  ene- 
comes  in  the  night ,  lo  "        j  j  ^^    ^^^^  of 

«y„f  his  Church.  /'*jr.l.arnshis  sincere 
JriWe  convulsion  ;  he  *f  "^'""us  heed,  to  watch  over 
disciples  to  taUe  the  most  ""^  J'  ^;d  to  the  cen- 
themselves,  that  they  may  "J  he      p  ^^^ 

,„res  of  mahgnanl  men  here  no 

-g-''-'*"?;;::^;::;!    In  done,  tl.  se^e^k 

When  all  this  f '^V  Xhichwehavethe  JoUow- 
«i««  will  be  poured  out;  of  wmchw.n 

ing  account. 


*t 
it 
*t 
« 

«  fe 
"  fc 
«  tl 


»» 


itm. 
mlem 
iiah  ; 
(/•Jo- 
them 
ten  of 
tnsive, 
nisbes 
imited 
estion. 

ere  this 
lich  the 
what  is 
was  in- 
express 
Bxtraor- 
3nlhesis, 
michethf, 
md  they 
nning  of 
.edeenier 
tions  are 
Bahylon, 
as  a  thief 
unan  eiie- 
times  of 
iiis  sincere 
vatch  over 
,0  the  cen- 
ground  for 

ihe  seventh 
the.  iollow- 


i( 


tt 


(     15     ) 

**  And  the  seventh  angel  poured  out  his  vial  into  the 
**  air  ;  and  there  came  a  great  voice  out  of  the  temple 
"  of  heaven,  from  the  throne,  saying,  It  is  done.  And 
"  there  were  voices,  and  thunders,  and  lightnings; 
"  and  there  was  a  great  earthquake,  such  as  was  not 
"  since  men  were  upon  the  earth,  so  mighty  an  earth- 
quake, and  so  great.  And  the  great  city  was  di- 
vided into  three  parts ;  and  the  cities  of  the  nations 
"  fell:  and  gieat  Babylon  came  in  remembrance  be- 
"  fore  God,  to  give  unto  her  the  cup  of  the  wine  of 
**  the  fierceness  of  his  wrath.  And  every  island  fled 
*'  away,  and  the  mountains  were  not  found.  And 
'*  there  fell  upon  men  a  great  hail  out  of  heaven ;  every 
^*  stone  about  the  weight  of  a  talent :  and  men  blas- 
"  phemed  God  because  of  the  plague  of  the  hail ;  for 
'*  the  plague  thereof  was  exceeding  great." 

Of  this  prophecy  there  are  four  parts.  TJie  great 
fvoice  out  of  the  temple  of  heaven,  saying,  "  It  is  done  ;'* 
i.  e.  the  kingdom  of  Babylon^  or  the  spiritual  Romish 
empire,  is  terminated ;  or,  perhaps  more  appropriately, 
the  work  of  destroying  this  empire  is  finished.  The 
second  is,  the  general  convulsion  oftJie  world,  attendant 
vpon  this  mighty  event  represented  by  the  voices,  the 
thunders^  the  lightnings,  the  earthquake,  the  falling 
of  the  cities  of  the  nations,  the  fleeing  away  of  the  isl- 
ands, the  vanishing  of  the  mountains,  and  the  plague  of 
Jiail.  The  third  is,  the  effect  of  these  convulsions  upon 
Babylon  itself.  The  great  city  was  divided  into  three 
parts :  and  great  Babylon  came  in  remembrance  before 
God  to  give  unto  her  the  cup  of  tlic  nine  of  the  fierce- 
ness of  his  wrath.  The  fourth  is,  .  effect  of  these 
judgments  upon  sinful  men:  And  they  blasphemd 
God  because  of  the  plague  of  the  Jiail :  for  the  plague 
t'hereoj  was  exceeding  great. 


\ 


It 


r 


<     16    ) 

The  declaration,  "  It  «rf«»c,"  intends,  I  apprehend, 
either  that  this  is  the  last  of  the  judgineuts  of  God 
„„„n  the  Romish  empire;  or  that  <Ac  ^k  oj  d.s- 
tluctim  is,  (to  use  the  language  ot  Doddnd^e,)  .^st 
n^  completmg.  In  scriptural  language,  that  .s  often 
said  to  have  taken  p.ace,  which  ,s  yet  .u  progress; 
tad  even  that  which  is  stilUuture. 

l-he  great  convulsion,  here  described,  is  exhibited 
as  affecting  the  earth,  and  tiie  atmoiphcre.    1  h.s  de- 
scription, like  other  parts  of  the  Apocalypse,  is  syu.bo- 
lical  •  and  denotes  a  conmUion  t.mmg  the  empires  of 
this  'norU,  resembling  in  its  violence  the  terrible  agi- 
tation  of  the  elements,  which  is  here  annouiiced.- 
..  ne  nations"  are  those,  who  experience  the  shaking 
of  the  earthquake.     The  convulsion  is  of  Amg<fo»«, 
prince*,  nobles,  and  the  people,  over  n,hom  the^ preside  ; 
such  an  one  as  will  agitate  and  distress  the  world 
of  men  in  the  same  manner,  as  if  all  the  eletnent. 
were  in  the  confusion  mentioned  in  the  P^ophecy. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  explain  the  third  of  these 
parts  of  The  city  Rome.    Whether  Home  may  be 
Ls  affected,  or  not;  or  whether  it  be  pecuUarly  and 
immediately  affected  at  all,  or  not ;  the  prophecy  may 
be  fulfilled  with  equal  exactness.     In  the  lollow.ng 
chapter,  where  this  subject  is  resumed  m  a  different 
form,  the  angel  interpreter  informs  us,  that  the  woman, 
n,ho  sat  upon  the  scarlet  colonred  beast,  and  wU  had 
uponlierfmeheadlier  name  written, "  mystery, baby- 
ION  THE  GREAT,  the  mother  of  Imrlots,  and  «?«.- 
minations  of  the  earth;'  was  the  great  city    whwh 
at  that  time  reigned  over  the  kings  of  the  earth.     U  n- 
nuestionably,  this  city  was  Borne :  but  it  was  no  ,  as 
Bo».e,  I  apprehend;  not  as  a  city,  having  in  itself. 


If 


Bhend, 
God 

}f  deS' 

s  often 
>gress ; 

hibited 
lis  de- 
synibo- 
nres  of 
i\e  agi- 
[iced. — 
shaking 
ngdoniSf 
yreside  ; 
e  world 
jlements 
ophecy. 
of  these 
may  be 
irly  and 
ecy  may 
bllowing 
different 
e  Kvomanf 
who  had 

y,  B  ABY- 

and  aho- 
ty,  which 
th.  Un- 
as not,  as 
in  itself. 


u 

i 


(     17     ) 
(in  the  political  system,  power,  agency,  and  influence, 
of  its   inhabitants ;)   this   abominable    control    over 
mankind ;  that  this  name  is  given  to  it.     It  was  be- 
cause Rome  was  the  seat  of  the  Hierarchy  ;  the  cen- 
tre of  its  power ;  the  fountain  of  its  corruptions  ;  the 
spot,  whence  proceeded  the  delusions,  impieties,  and 
iniquities,  which  depraved  the  whole  Christian  world. 
If  then,  the  city,  in  this  sense,  is  divided  and  distract- 
ed, the  prediction  is  answered.     The  parts  into  which 
it  is  exhibited,  as  thus  divided,  are  here  said  to   be 
three :  a  definite  number  for  an  indefinite  :  the  real 
meaning  being  expressed  by  the  English  word  several 
The  fourth  part  needs  no  comment. 
Having  finished  the  remarks  which  I  thought  it  ne- 
cessary to  make  upon  these  passages  of  Scripture  by 
way  of  explanation,  I  will  now   proceed  to  give  the 
reasons,  why  I  suppose  the  present  period  falb  under 
the  two  last  of  these  vials :  and  these  are  all  included 
under  the  general  one,  that  the  facts,  which  have  ta- 
ken  place  during  the  last  120  3/ear*,  particularly  c/wnw^ 
the  last  80,  and  still  more  especially  daring  the  last 
60,  have  been  an  exact,  and  wonderful,  accomplishment 
of  the  predictions,   which   they  contain.      Many   of 
these  I  have  stated,  particularly,  on  another  occasion. 
At  these  I  shall  only  glance ;  and  then  proceed  to 
others,  which  were  not  then  specified. 

The  first  public  appearance  of  Deism  was  about 
the  middle  of  the  16th  century  :  when  several  persons 
in  Italy,  and  France,  assumed  the  title  of  Deists,  as  an 
express  distinction  of  themselves  from  Christians. 
They  are  mentioned  by  the  celebrated  Viret,  an  emi- 
nent Reformer,  as  treating  the  Scriptures  as  a  collec- 
tion of  fables,  and  laughing  at  all  religion.  Several 
r»en  of  this  class  appeared  in  England,  also,  about 

3 


I 


(     18    ) 

the  latter  part  of  the  same  century.  But  neither  in 
Great' Br itidnf  nor  on  the  continent,  did  they  make  any 
considerable  impression  upon  public  opinion.  In  the 
year  1624,  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherhuryy  a  man  of 
considerable  talents,  and  learning,  published  his  hook 
concerning  Truth,  at  Paris.  It  was  afterwards  pub- 
lished in  England,  together  with  two  others.  A 
fourth  was  added  to  them  after  his  death.  In  these 
he  attempted  to  reduce  Deism  to  a  system.  From 
this  time,  writers  of  this  class  multiplied,  both  in 
Great- Britain  and  on  the  continent  of  Europe.  In 
such  a  world  as  this,  it  was  impossible  that  they 
should  not  find  adherents. 

About  the  year  1728,  the  great  sera  of  Infidelity, 
Voltaire  formed  a  set  design  to  destroy  the  Christian 
religion.  For  this  purpose  he  engaged,  at  several 
succeeding  periods,  a  number  of  men,  distinguished 
for  power,  talents,  reputation,  and  influence ;  all 
deadly  enemies  to  the  Gospel ;  Atheists ;  men  of 
profligate  principles,  and  profligate  lives.  This  de- 
sign he  pursued  with  unabated  zeal  50  years;  and 
was  seconded  by  his  associates  with  an  ardour,  and 
industry,  scarcely  inferior  to  his  own.  In  conse- 
quence of  their  united  labours,  and  of  the  labours  of 
others,  from  time  to  time  combined  with  them,  they 
ultimately  spread  the  design  throughout  a  great  part 
of  Europe ;  and  embarked  in  it  individuals,  at  little 
distances,  over  almost  the  whole  of  that  continent.—. 
Their  adherents  inserted  themselves  into  every  place, 
oflfice,  and  employment,  in  which  their  agency  might 
become  efiicacious,  and  which  furnished  an  opportuni- 
ty of  spreading  their  corruptions.  They  were  found 
in  every  -literary  institution  from  the  Abecedarian 
school  to  the  Academy  of  sciences ',  and  in  every  civil 


I 


(    19    ) 

office,  from  that  of  the  bailiff  to  .hat  of  the  Monavck 
They   swarmed   i»  the  palace ;  they   haunted    the 
church.      Wherever  mischief  could  be  done,  tj^  y 
were  found :  and,  wherever  they   were  found,  m.s- 
Iwef  was  extensively  done.    Of   books  they  conUol- 
SL  publication,  the  sale,  and  the  character.    An 
mm  use  number  they  formed  ;  an  immense  number 
tZ  forged ;  prefixed  to  them  the  names  of  repu  able 
wrC  and  scut  them  into  the  world,  to  be  sold  tor  a 
Tong     and.  when  that  could  not  be  done,  to  be  g.ve„ 
Zl:     Within    a  period,  shorter  than  could  have 
been  imagined,  they  possessed  themselves,  to  a  great 
extlt,  of  a  control,  nearly  absolute,  of  Ihp  literary, 
religious,  and  political  state  of  Europe. 

With  these  advantages  in  their  hands,  .t  will  easily 
be  believed,  that  they  left  no  instnmient  unemployed, 
and  no  measure  untried,  to  accomplish  their  own  ma- 
lignant purposes.  With  a  diligence  courage  constau- 
cf.  activity,  and  perseverance,  which  m  gli  rival  the 
eftbits  of  demons  themselves,  they  penetrated  into  eve- 
..v  corner  of  human  society.     Scarcely  a  man,  woman, 
or  child,  was  left  unassailed,  wherever  there  was  a  sin- 
gle hope,  that  the  attack  might  be  successfu  .  Books 
;ere  written,  and  published,  in  innumerable  multi- 
tudes, in  which  infidelity  was  brought  down  to  the 
level  of  peasants,  and  even  of  children;  and  poured 
with  immense  assiduity  into  the  cottage,  and  the  school. 
Othei-s  of  a  superior  kind,  crept  into  the  shop,  and 
the  farm-house;  and  others  of  a  still  higher  class, 
found  their  way  to  the  drawing  room,  the  univei-sity, 
and  the  palace.    The  hmnesa  of  all  men,  who  vvere 
of  any  importance,  and  the  education  of  the  children 
ot  all  such  men,  was.  as  far  as  possible,  engrossed,  or 
at  least  influenced,  by  these  banditti  of  the  moral 


I 


fti 


(     20     ) 

wo'ld;  and  the  hearts  of  those,  who  had  no  impor- 
tance, hut  in  their  nunihers,  and  physical  strength. 
A  sensual,  profligate  nobility,  and  princes,  if  possible 
still  more  sensual  and  profligate,  easily  yielded  them- 
selves, and  their  children,  into  the  hands  of  these  min- 
ions of  corruption.  Too  ignorant,  too  enervated,  or 
too  indolent,  to  understand,  or  even  to  inquire  that 
they  might  understand,  the  tendency  of  all  these  ef- 
forts, they  marched  quietly  on  to  tiie  gulf  of  ruin, 
which  was  already  opened  to  receive  them.  With 
these  was  combined  a  priesthood,  which,  in  all  its  dig- 
nified ranks,  was  still  more  putrid ;  and  which  eager- 
ly yielded  up  the  surplice  and  the  lawn,  the  desk  and 
the  altar,  to  destroy  tluit  Bible,  which  they  had  vow- 
ed to  defend,  as  \i  ell  as  to  preach ;  and  to  renew 
the  crucifixion  of  that  Redeemer,  whom  they  had 
sworn  to  worship.  By  these  agents,  and  these  eftbrts, 
the  plague  was  spread  with  a  rapidity,  and  to  an  ex- 
tent, which  astoiHshed  heaven  and  earth:  and  life 
went  out,  not  in  solitary  cases,  but  by  an  universal  ex- 
tinction. 

While  these  measures  were  thus  going  on  with  a 
success  scarcely  interrupted,  Br.  Adam  Weishaupt, 
IJrofessor  of  the  Canon  Law  in  the  University  of  In- 
goldstadty  a  city  of  Bavaria,  a  man  of  no  contempti- 
ble talents,  but  of  immense  turpitude,  and  a  Jesuit,  esta- 
blished the  society  of  Illuminees.  Into  this  establish- 
ment he  brought  all  the  systematized  iniquity  of  his 
brotherhood  -,  distinguished  beyond  every  other  class 
of  men  for  cunning,  mischief,  an  absolute  desti- 
tution of  conscience,  an  absolute  disregard  of  all  the 
interests  of  man,  and  a  torpid  insensibility  to  moral  ob- 
ligation. No  fraternity,  for  so  long  a  time,  or  to  so 
great  an  extent,  united  within  its  pale  such  a  mass  of 


.■-■»"»«-r~*r^'' 


I 


(     21     ) 
talents;  or  employed  in  its  service  such  a  succession 
of  v.ororous  efforts.     The  serpentine  system  of  this  or- 
der VVeuhmipt  perfectly  understood.     The  great  de- 
sign of  the  Jesuits  had  always  been  to  engross  the  pow- 
er and  influence  of  Europe,  and  to  regulate  all  its  im- 
poitant  affairs.     The  system  of  measures,  which  they 
had  adopted  for  this  end,  was  superior  to  every  prece- 
dmg  scheme  of  human  policy.     To  this  design  Weish^ 
€tupt,  who  was  more  absolutely  an  Atheist  than  Vol- 
taire,  and  as  cordially  wished  for  the  ruin  of  Cliristi- 
aiuty,  superadded  a  general  intention  of  destroying  the 
moral  character  of  man.     The  system  of  policy,  adopt- 
ed  by  the  Jasuits,  was,  therefore,  exactly  fitted  to  his 
purpose ;  for  the  design,  with  this  superaddition,  was 
exactly  the  same. 

With  these  advantageous  preparations,  he  boldly  un- 
dertook this  work  of  destruction ;  and  laid  the  axe  at 
the  root  of  all  moral  principle,  and   the  sense  of  all 
moral  obligation,  by  establishing  a  few  fundamental 
doctrines,  ^^  hich  were  amply  sufficient  for  this  pur- 
pose.     These  were,  that  God  is  nothing  ;  that  Govern^ 
ment  is  a  curse,  and  authority  an  usurpation  ;  that  ci^ 
vil  society  is  the  only  apostacy  of  man ;  that  the  posses- 
sion of  property  is  rohhery  ;  that  chastity  and  natural 
affection,  are  mere  prejudices ;  and  that  adultery,  as- 
sassination, poisoning,  and  other  crimes  of  a  similar 
nature,  are  lawful,  and  even  virtuous,     A  large  branch 
ot  the  Masonic  Societies  in  Germany  and  France  had 
already  adopted  the  same  objects,  as  the  great  and  con- 
^oUmg  ones  of  all  their  personal  and  united  labours. 
Here  secrecy  furnished  the  most  advantageous  oppor- 
tunities for  the  formation  of  every  design,  and  the  most 
advantageous  contrivance  for  its  successful  execution. 
Were  the  spirit  of  hostility  against  religion  and  o-o- 
vernment  was  kindled,  and  blown  up  into  a  flame; 


m 


m 


- 


(  '^2  ) 

Here,  in  a  ^vora.  all  U.at  vice  coulcWish  and  profli- 
nere,       -  ,„otiire<l.  and  set  forward 

eacv  aUtrnpl,  was  ,,roi.o»e<J.  >>iat*'f ^u.  anu 
for  execution.      UuJw   iLexe    cucumstanccs.  were 
tor  extcuuon.  »•  iiinmimsm      Tliev  xpread,  of 

founded  the  societies  ot  Iluininism.      » '    \. '     .„„,a 
coarse,  with  a  rapidity,  which  no  h.ng  but  lact  couUl 

Austria,  Uollund,  france,  f  "-'•'«'«'  ^f^tse  was 
?«„d.  &««/««rf.  and  even  in  An,er,ca.     i'\f'^''^^^ 
t-yJu  the  erand  and  sweeping  principle  of  coirup 
tof   /.«   «!   J^ncl  .anctims  the  Meam ;  a  principle 
S.  U-  Ivery  where  adopted,  would  overturn  the 

""Thrd'esign  of  the  founder  and  his  coadjutors,  wa. 
nott. ing  less  than  to  engross  the  empire  ot  the  world 
and  to  place  mankind  beneath  the  ieet  ot  himself,  and 

%X:^Xd  in  the  year  following  the  est^dish- 

,.  ,1  Tiie  f\i«rii)les  With  one  heaiT, 

went  ot  lilimnmsm.     Jrlis  aibcipies  wi 

Td  one  voice,  united  in  ds  -'-^'^^  J  ^.^^L: 
more  absolute  system  ot  corruption  than  themsehes 
Td  been  able  I  form,  entered  eagerly  into  all  .te 
Zs  and  pur,«ses.  Thencefurwavd.  heretoie.  all 
[he  legions  of  ^fidelity  are  to  be  considered  as  em- 
barked in  a  shigle  bottom;  and  as  crnismg  toge  .• 
agiior.»er.pLe,  and  virtue,  on  a  voyage  o^  ,-.- 

^"ThTi^rct  revolution  b«r.t  upon  mankind  at  thi. 
moment.  Here  was  opened  an  ample  held  for  the 
"i.  of  iv  s..  abandoned  men  in  the  v.ork  ot  pol- 
laDouisoi  q^here  is  no  small  reason  to  be- 

lut  on  and  dc-ss...      Ihere  is  no  sn  ,       ,    -j 

lieve,  that  every  individual  diummee,  and  almost,  rt 
no  11  every  infidel,  on  the  continent  of  turope, 
its  hbo^ when  he  could;  and  hi.  wisbes,  whea 


« 


« 


41 


4( 


profli- 
jrward 
,  were 
•ead,  of 
;  cuuld 
fore  the 
lumbera 
Poland  J 

lese  was 

corrup- 

iriuciplo 

turn  the 

;ors,  was. 
e  world, 
iself,  and 

eslablish- 
ne  heart, 
finding  a 
tien\selses 
ito  all  its 
refore,  all 
id  as  em- 
r  togf'    '«• 
age  o^"  <'v 

lind  at  this 
3ld  for  the 
,rk  of  poi- 
son to  be- 
l  alniost,  if 
of  turopey 
isUes,  when 


(     23     ) 

lie  could  not ;  for  the  advanrement  of  the  lins  and 
the  miseries,  which  attended  this  unexampled  oorru[). 
tion.     Had  not  CloD  taken  the  wise  in  the^  mm  craf- 
tiness, and  camniX  the  wicked  to  fall  into  the  pit  which 
ihe^i  diyped,  and  into  the  snares  ivh'^ch  their  hands  had 
set;  it  is  impossible  to  conjecture  the  extent  to  which 
they  would  have  carried  their  devastation  of  human 
happiness.     But,  like  the  profligate  rulers  of  Israel, 
those   who  succeeded,  regularly  destroyed  their  pre- 
decessors.    The  whole  history  of  their  rise,  adminis- 
tration, and  fall,  is  sufficiently  exhibited  in  the  follow- 
ing verses.     «  In  the  twenty  and  sixth  year  of  Asa, 
*'  king  of  Judah,  began  Elah,  the  son  of  Baasha,  to' 
**  reign  over  Israel  iu  Tirzah,  two  years.    And  his 
«  servant  Zimri,  (captain  of  half  his  chariots,)  con- 
«  spired  against  him,  as  he  was  in  Tirzah,  drinking 
**  himself  drunk  in  the  house  of  Arza,  steward  of  his 
«  house  in  Tirzah.     And  Zimri  went  in,  and  smote 
*'  him,  and  killed  him,  in  the  twenty  and  seventh 
«  year  of  Asa,  king  of  Judah,  and  reigned  in  his 
''*  stead.     In  the  twenty  and   seventh  year  of  Asa, 
«  king  of  Judah,  did  Zimri   reign   seven  days  in 
«  Tirzah;  and  the  people  were  encamped   against 
«  Gibbethon,   which  belonged   to  the  Phihstines— 
"  A^nd  the  people  that  were  encamped,  heard  say, 
**  *  7Mun  hath  conspired,  and  hath  also  slain  the  king.' 
«  Wherefore  all  Israel  made  Omri,  the  captain  ''of 
"  the  host,  king  over  Israel,  that  day,  in  the  camp.— 
*'  And  Omri  went  up  from  Gibbethon,  and  all  Is- 
rael with  him,  and  they  besieged  Tirzah.     And  it 
came  to  pass,  when  Zimri  saw  that  the  city  was 
*'  taken,  that  he  went  into  the  palace  of  the  king's 
*'  house,  and  burnt  the  king's  house  over  him  wTth 
"  tire,    and   died,  for  his  sins,  which  he  sinned  in 
«  doing  evil  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord,  in  walkino-  m 


<( 


4i 


*t 


4( 


^1 

/ 


it 


ft  i' 


f 


111 


V- — 


(     '-'4     ) 

«  the  way  of  Jeroboam,  and  in  his  sin  which  he  did 
"  to  make  Israel  to  sin." 

The  spirit  of   infidelity  has  the  hbart  of  a  wolf, 
the  fangs  of  a  tyger,  and  the  talons  of   a  vulture. 
Blood  is  its  proper  nourishment :  and  it  scents  its  prey 
with  the  nerves  of  a  hound,  and  cowers  over  a  ti^ld 
of  death  on  the  sooty  pinions  of   a  fiend.     Unlike 
all  other  animals  of  prey,  it  feeds  upon  its  own  kind  ; 
and,   when   glutted  with  the  blood  of  others,  turns 
back  upon  those,  who  have  been  its  coadjutors,  and 
who,  if  either  its  disposition,  or  its  measures,  could 
admit  of  friendship,  would  have  been  its  friends.— 
Between  90  and  100  of  those,  who  were  leaders  in 
this  mighty  work  of  destruction,  fell  by  the  hand  of 
violence.     Enemies  to  all  men,  they  were  of  course 
enemies  to  each  other.     Butchers  of  the  human  race, 
they  soon  whetted  the  knife  for  each  other's  throats : 
and  the  tremendous  Being,  who  rules  tlie  Universe, 
whose  existence  they  had  denied  in  a  solemn  act  of 
legislation,  whose  perfections  they  had  made  the  butt 
of  public  scorn  and  private  insult,  whose  Son  they 
had  crucified  afresh,  and  whose  Word  they  had  burnt 
by  the  hands  of  the  common  hangman  ;   swept  them 
all  by  the  hand  of  violei>ce  into  an  untimely   grave. 
The  tale  made  every  ear,  which  heard  itf  tingle,  and 
every  heart  chill  with  horror.   It  was,  in  the  language 
of  Ossian,  "  the  song  of  deaths  It  was  like  the  reign 
of  the  plague  in  a  populous  city.     Knell  tolled  upon 
knell ;  hearse  followed  hearse  ;  and  cofiin  rumbled  af- 
ter coffin ;  without  a  mourner  to  shed  a  tear  upon  the 
corpse,  or  a  solitary  attendant  to  mark  the  place  of 
the  grave.  From  one  new  moon  to  another^  and  from  one 
sabbath  to  miother,ihe  world  went  forth  and  looked  ciper 
the  carcasses  of  the  men,  who  transgressed  against  God; 
and  they  were  an  abhorring  unto  aUJlesh' 


^ 

•it 


i 


» 


,6   \ 


lie  dici 


PART  II. 


a  wolf, 
k^ulture* 
its  prey 

a  iield 
Unlike 
1  kind ; 
s,  turns 
•rs,  and 
J,  could 
ends.— - 
iders  in 
hand  of 
f  course 
an  race, 
throats : 
Fniverse, 
1  act  of 
the  butt 
)on  they 
ad  burnt 
ept  them 
y   grave* 
ighf  and 
anguage 
he  reign 
led  upon 
ubled  af-. 
upon  the 

place  of 
from  one 
tkedfif^teT 


A  DISCOURSE, 


Isaiah  xxi.  11,  12. 

Tkt  burden  ofDumah.  He  calleth  to  me  out  ofSeir,  Watchr 
wan,  what  of  the  night  ?  Watchman,  what  of  the  night  ? 

The  Watchman  said,  TJie  morning  cometh ;  and  also  the  night. 
If  ye  will  inquire,  inquire  ye ;  return  ;  come. 


In  the  former  part  of  this  discourse  I  observed,  that 
the  present  period  is  exhibited  in  prophecy  by  the  two 
lasl  of  the  seven  vialSf  mentioned  in  the  apocalypse. 
This  prophecy,  together  with  that  contained  in  the  ac- 
count of  the  fifth  vial,  I  recited ;  and  in  a  brief  comment 
endeavoured  to  explain.  I  then  proceeded  to  examine 
a  part  of  the  history  of  Christendom,  which  I  consi- 
dered as  the  proper  fulfilment  of  the  prediction.  I 
will  now  proceed  with  the  detail ;  and  mention  several 
other  facts,  included  in  the  same  history,  and  constitu- 
ting other  parts  of  the  fulfilment  of  the  same  prophe- 
cies. 

The  miseries,  brought  upon  the  French  -nation  bj 
the  Infidels,  who  were  the  agents  in  its  republican  go- 
vernrtient,  soon  became  intolerable.  The  whole  sys- 
tem was  formed  of  a  fieud-like  oppression  ;  and  the 
empire  was  filled  with  alarm,  and  blood,  and  wo.  Tho 
period  of  their  domination  became  more  and  more 
dreadful ;  and  a  considerable  part  of  it  was  denomi- 

i 


I* 


!J 


!  i 


ji 


EH 


ill 


r  7 


i7- 


(    26    ) 
^,  in  wh>ch  ll„s  ..bmseology  came  into  proverbial  use 

^Ln  thevTru  ".^  '""""'  "''^''  'o^''"  amazement, 
When  they  beheld  the  scene.     It  seemed  a  prelude  to 

m-«'i,  a  military  despotism  ;  heretofore  regarded  bv 

nan   md  as  the  consummation  of  ruin.     Stifi  Til 

leal  lefuge  from  the  honors  of  the  former  system  • 

horrors    which  no  nation  ever  before  sulred    a"d 

2'ci.  no  imagination  had    ever  anticipated'  The 

X  friti  i;*  "'  '''"T?^  •"•''^'•-     T«-s  reaching 
eury  iimt  ot  human  labour,  and  all  the  pronertv 
-h,ch  taxes  can  reach,  .rung  blood  from  eve  r/eb 
oi  the  miserable  inhabitants.     A  ti-ain  of  spies  im 
.nei.se  ,„  their  numbers,  and  stationed  everTwhre' 
Fovvled  in  every  road  and  street,  in  every  citj  aid  so- 
tode,  and  haunted  the  church,  the  tire-sidcLd  the 
closet;  cairymg-  ffear,  suspense,  distrust,  and  anlsT 
10  every  heart.     The  young  men  were  yoked  togeX' 
-•  hke   cattle;  and  <lriven  to   the  camp,   to    Mat 
-vay  with  disease,  toil,  and  suffering ;  or  to  fall,  w  th 
less  agony,  upon  the  edge  of  the  sword.     The  female 
«ex  snnk  gradually  from  the  high  level,  to  which  the 
Gospel  had  raised  them,  towards  the  miserable  d egt^ 
dation,  to  which  they  have  been  depressed  by  Mo. 
Imnimedans  and  savages;  and  lost  all  their  influence 


M 


it  is  beltev- 
verbial  use. 
>rld  of  per- 
mazement, 
prelude  to 
ath ;  a  den, 
tered;  but 
on  despair 
»ergy,  and 
e  existing" 
►m  human 
yarded  by 
11  it  was  a 
•  system; 
Jred,  and 
3d.     The 
the  mise- 
^  the  sea- 
reaching" 
c>roperty, 
ery  vein 
pies,  im- 
^  where, 
'  and  so- 
and  the 
anguish, 

tog-eth- 
)  waste 
ill,  with 

female 
lich  the 

degra- 
y  Mo- 
^uence. 


(     27     ) 

and  probably,  all  their  disposition,  to  check  the  vices; 
retine  the  mamiers,  and  amend  the  hearts,  of  men. 
Tiie  irreligion  of  the  preceding  period  was  varied,  on- 
ly ill  ils  forms,  and  appearances ;  in  substance  it  was 
the  same.  Ifte  Goddess  of  iieason  was  not  now  wor- 
shipped, as  before,  in  the  form  of  a  polluted  woman. 
The  sacramental  vessels  were  not  now  mounted  upon 
an  ass,  and  paraded  through  the  streets,  to  msult  him, 
who  died,  that  man  might  live.  Ttie  Bible  was  not 
made  the  fuel  of  a  bon-tire.  The  Sabbath  might  now 
be  observed  without  treason  against  the  government. 
But  the  churches  were  empty.  The  ministers  were 
butts,  and  beggars.  The  Sabbath  was  a  day  of  sport. 
Several  booksellers,  employed  by  the  Commissioners  of 
the  London  Missionary  Society  to  furnish  them  with 
a  Bible,  searched  the  city  of  Paris  three  days,  before 
they  could  find  one.  Religion  was  dead ;  and  her  re- 
mains lay  in  the  street  of  the  great  city,  which  spiritu- 
ally is  called,  Sodom  and  Egypt.  The  kingdom  be- 
came a  charnel-house  of  Atheism :  where  the  final 
knell  had  been  tolled  at  the  departure  of  life,  and  hope, 
and  salvation. 

From  the  commencement  of  this  revolution,  the 
miseries,  which  spread  in  so  terrible  a  manner  through 
the  French  kingdom,  extended  themselves  over  all 
the  surrounding  country.  The  property  of  the  prince, 
the  nobles  and  the  clergy,  the  Revolutionary  leaders 
seized  without  remorse,  or  conscience,  as  their  lawful 
prey.  More  than  £  200,000,000  sterling  are  suppos- 
ed to  have  fallen  into  their  hands  by  one  vast  act  of 
confiscation.  This  immense  sum  was,  however,  in- 
sufficient to  satisfy  their  rapacity.  Under  the  names 
of  contributions,  war-taxes,  and  other  claims,  profess- 

*»^I.T   oU;r»c.     n,f  iVtA    riatirkn     thf»u    fintllPTpd    tllB  riohpit  of 


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{     28     ) 

the  whole  people  as  a  nesty  and  as  oneyathereth  eggs  that 
are  left ;  and  there  was  none,  that  moved  the  wing,  or 
opened  the  mouth,  or  peeped.     With  this  singular  mass 
of  wealth  in  their  possession,  they  raised  armies,  indif- 
ferent years  amounting  to  5,  7,  9,  and  12  hundred 
thousand  men :  the  strongest  and  most  formidable  bo- 
dy, which  was  ever  assembled  upon  this  globe.     This 
incomprehensible  multitude  they  emptied  out   upon 
every  neighbouring  state.     The  lava  did  not  run  in  a 
stream,  as  in  the  eruptions  of  the  natural  world.     It 
flowed  down  all  the  sides  of  the  immeasurable  crater 
at  once :  and  like  an  ocean,  rolled  its  waves  of  fire 
over  the  whole  face  of  the  world,  within  its  reach. 
Nothing  withstood  its  power.     The  life,  liberty,  and 
property,  of  every  bordering  nation,  was  consumed  ; 
and  a  boundless  scene  of  desolation  every  where  mark- 
ed its  course.     The  power,  and  pride,  of  Spain  were 
broken  down.     Jtalg  was  overrun.     I'he  king  of  Sar- 
dinia was   driven    from  his    country.      Switzerland, 
Belgium,  Batavia,  Germany,  Prussia,  and  Austria, 
bowed  successively  to  the  French  arms;  and  were  un- 
done.    Every  republic  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  At- 
lantic was  blotted  out  from  under  heaven  j  and  every 
knigdom,  also  which  policy,  or  the  convenience  of  the 
conquerors,  did  not  compel  them  to  leave  independent. 
It  made  no  difference  whether  the  nation  was  a  friend, 
or  k  foe ;  was  in  alliance  with  them,  or  at  war.  Whatever 
W'as thought  convenient/or  France  was  done ;  and  done 
in  defiance  of  every  law  of  God  or  man ;  of  the  most 
solenm  treaties,  of  the  most  absolute  promises. 

At  the  very  commencement  of  their  career,  the  le- 
gisiature  made  three  great  public  promises ;  foi* 
wh.ch  they  pledged  tlieir  faith  to  the  world.  One 
wasj  that  France  would  make  no  conquests.     Another 


-X. 


(     29     ) 

v^as,  that  she  would  make  war  only  upon  tymnts.  -- 
The  third  was,  that  she  would  give  liberty  and  equality 
to  all  people,  fvhithersoever  her  armies  came.     With 
the  fiist^of  these  promises  in  her  mouth,  she  began 
the  work  of  conquest  at  her  eiitrance  into  the  field  of 
conflict ;  and  has  done  nothing  b«t  conquer,  or  at- 
tempt to  conquer,  to  the  present  hour.     While  she 
was  resounding  the  second  over  the  face  of  the  whole 
earth,  she  swept  away  with  the  besom  of  destruction 
the  republics  of  Lucca,  Pisa,  and  Venice;  the  thir- 
teen republics  of  Switzerland  ;  the  republics  in  alli- 
ance with  the  Swilzers ;  that  of  the  Seven  Isles ;  that 
of  St.  Marino  ;  all  the  free  cities  of  Germany  ;  and 
the  republics  of  Genoa,  Geneva,  and  the  Netlierlands* 
One   only  remains  on   the  face  of  the  earth  j   and 
that,  merely  because  the  giant  was  unable  to  wade 
through  the  billows  of  the  Atlantic, 

The  work  of  destruction  is  still  going  on ;  and 
with  no  less  zeal  than  heretofore.  Nor  is  there  any 
reason  to  believe,  that  it  will  terminate,  until  the 
means  of  accomplishing  it  shall  fail ;  or  until  man- 
kind cease  to  resist ;  or  until  the  world  is  desolated ; 
or  until  God  shall  consume  in  his  wrath  these  ene- 
mies of  earth  and  heaven. 

Such  is  a  summary  account  of  this  astonishing  se- 
ries of  events;  a  parallel  to  which  cannot  be  found 
in  the  annals  of  time.  I  will  now  proceed  to  exam- 
ine the  great  parts  of  this  tragedy,  for  the  purpose  of 
illustrating  the  principal  point  proposed ;  their  connex- 
ion with  these  remarkable  prophecies.  For  this  pur- 
pose I  observe, 

1.  That  the  infidels,  in  question,  sprang  up  in  the 
very  place,  pointed  out  by  the  prophecy. 


l-i-i 


(     30    ) 

They  came  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  Dragon  ;  the 
secular  persecuting  power,  combined  wjth  tlie  Ro- 
mish Hierarchy,  and  were  composed  to  a  great  extent 
of  the  nobles,  the  gentry,  and  the  literati,  o»  the  Ro- 
man Ciitholic  countries;  particularly  of  the  two  prin- 
cipal ones,  France  and  Germany. 

2  hey  came  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  Beast,  or  eccle- 
siastical persecuting  power.  To  a  great  extent  they 
were  composed  of  the  secular  cleigy,  which,  with 
the  pontifl  at  their  head,  peculiarly  constituted  the 
Hierarchy.  A  great  inultituue  of  these,  particularly 
of  the  higher  orders,  were  embaiked  in  this  design ; 
and  were  among  the  most  efficacious  instruments  of 
carrying  it  into  execution.  Few  persons  rendered 
the  system  such  important  service,  as  Briennes,  arch- 
bishop of  1/iouiouse. 

They  came  (mt  of  the  mguth  of  the  fake  prophet, 
or  the  Beast,  which  had  two  hortis,  like  a  Lamb; 
which  exercised  all  the  poiver  of  thejirst  Beast  before 
him.  The  regular  clergy  have,  from  an  early  period, 
possessed,  and  exercised,  the  persecuting  power,  here 
referred  to ;  particularly  that  terrible  branch  of  it, 
named  the  Inquisition.  The  Jesuits  were,  early,  infi- 
dels in  great  numbers ;  and  contributed  not  a  little 
by  their  writings  to  unhinge  the  minds  of  men  with 
respect  to  religious  doctrines,  and  moral  practice. — 
^  eishaupt  completed  what  his  predecessors  had  be- 
gun, and  advanced. 

But  it  is  sufficient  for  my  purpose,  that  they  sprang 
out  of  the  countries,  under  the  control  of  tJie  Hierar- 
chy. 

2nd.  They  were  spirits  of  Demons. 

This  is  not  only  abundantly,  but  wonderfully,  evi- 
dent in  the  diabolical  nature  of  their  great  design  ; 


mmiMdll^MiUmBi 


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(    31     ) 

the  destruction  of  Christianity,  and  the  subjugation  of 
mankind.  Equally  evident  was  it  in  the  means, 
which  they  employed  for  the  accomplishment  of  their 
purpose.  These  were  the  publication  of  an  endless 
number  of  falsehoods;  lying,  without  limits;  perju- 
ry; treachery;  treason;  murder;  robbery;  oppres- 
sion. At  the  same  time  they  were  bl  sphemous,  athe- 
istical, and  more  furiously  hostile  to  God  and  reli- 
gion, than  any  other  men  since  the  deluge. 

They  were  like  frogs;  endlessly  loquacious  on  thii 
subject;  immeasurably   loathsome   by  their  debase- 
ment of  mind,   by   their  obscenity,  their  lewdness, 
their  abjuration  of  all  moral  principle,  and  the  pecu- 
liar  pleasure,  which  they  discovered  at  the  sight,  and 
in  the  perpetration,  of  sin  in  every  form,  and  degree. 
They  were  intrusive   in   a  manner  unexampled. — 
Like  the  frogs,  brought  up  upon  the  land  of  Egypt, 
they  went  up,  and  came  into  the  house  of  the  prince, 
and  into  his  bedchamber,  and  upon  his  bed,  and  into 
the  houses  of  his  servants,  upon  his  people,  into  tlieir 
ovens,  and  into  their   kneading  trouglts;  and,  after 
they  had  perished,  the  ill  savour,  which  they  left  be- 
hind them,  was  not  less  offensive  or  overwhelming. 
There  was  not  a  situation,  not  an  office,  not  a  place, 
where  mischief  could  be  done,  but  it  was  occupied 
by  them.     They  were  clamorous.     The  press  groan- 
ed with  their  labours  on  all  subjects,  handled  in  all 
forms,  which  promised  to  be  injurious  to  Christianity. 
From   the  magnificent   Encyclopedic  dowp  to  the 
farthing  pamphlet,  the  hand-bill,  and  the  song,  infide- 
lity descended  in  a  regular  progress,  without  blushing 
at  her  degradation,  satisfied  if  she  could  only  oppose 
God,   and  destroy  mankind;  and  rejoicing  in  the 
means  of  mischief,  however  humble,  if  they  were  on- 


\i'-i 


(     82     ) 

fy  efficacious.  At  the  same  time  they  were  equally 
sedulous  with  the  tongue  in  the  legislature,  at  the  levee, 
in  the  drawing  room,  in  the  private  circle  of  friends 
and  neighbours,  and  even  in  the  tavern  club. 
.  3rf/y.  The^  Jiave  wrought  Miracles :  tlmt  is,  have 
dme  things  of  a  nun-vellom  nature. 

For  proof  of  this  position  I  refer  to  the  history, 
which  I  have  given ;  and  shall  only  add,  that  the  world 
has  been  in  a  state  of  unceasing  astonishment,  ever 
since  their  designs,  and  their  eiforts,  were  fairly  open- 
ed to  the  view  of  mankind. 

Uhly.  They  Jutve  gone  forth  to  the  kings  of  the  earth, 
and  the  whole  world,  to  gather  them  to  the  battle  of  that 
great  day  of  God  Almighty. 

The  earth,  in  the  language  of  this  book,  usually  de- 
notes the  Rmnan  empire.     It  has  been  the  favourite  la- 
bour of  these  men  to  insert  themselves  into  the  cabi- 
nets of  princes,  and  peculiarly  into  those  offices,  which 
were  the  seats  of  business,  the  sources  of  all  the  great 
movements  of  empire,  of  all  great  national  exertions. 
Here,  into  the  very  cabinets,  the  very  households,  of  mo- 
narchs,  they  have  silently  crept ;  and  wound  themselves 
around  their  hearts  with  amotion  so  lubricous,  so  soft, 
so  insensible,  that  neither  their  snaky  character,  nor 
even  their  approach,  was  perceived.     Here  they  have 
charmed  their  miserable  victims  to  destruction,  and 

stung  them  to  death. 

The  battle  of  tluit great  day  o/GoD  Almighty,  does 
not,  I  apprehend,  denote  a  single  battle  ;  but  a  war,  or 
series  of  wars,  commenced,  and  carried  on,  in  succes- 
sion for  the  same  purpose :  just  as  the  word,  king,  de- 
notes, in  the  language  of  the  same  prophecy,  that  mc- 
cession  of  kings,  which  rule  over  a  given  kingdom  du- 
ring its  continuance.     This  battle  has  been  erroneous- 


s  levee, 
friends 


ally  de- 
irile  la- 
le  cabi- 
,  which 
le  great 
di-ioiis, 
;,of  mo- 
mselves 
,  so  soft, 
ter,  nor 
ey  have 
on,  and 

ty,  does 
war,  or 
I  succes- 
nng,  de- 
\hat  sue- 
lom  du- 
roneous- 


(    33    ) 

ly  supposed  to  be  the  same  with  that,  mentioned,  Zech- 
ariah  xiv.  3.  4,  5,  Nt  14.  and  has  been  supposed  to  be  a 
sini^le  battle,  fought  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Jemsa- 
lem,  after  the  return  of  the  Jews  to  their  own  land. 
But  nothing  can,  I  apprehend,  be  more  erroneous  than 
this  construction.     The  prophecy  has  not  even  a  re- 
mote reference  to  the  Jews,  nor  to  their  country.     Its 
scene  is  the  Romish  empire  :  and  its  object  is,  tirst,  the 
Hierarchy,  and  secondly,  the  people  governed  by  it. 
The  name,  Armageddm,  or  the  mountain  of  Meffiddo, 
mistakenly  supposed  to  indicate,  that  Judaa  is  the 
scene  of  this  battle,  and  the  only  expression  in  the  pro- 
phecy, which  can  be  supposed  even  remotely  to  coun- 
tenance this  construction,  indicates  the  contrary.  As  a 
symbolical  expression,  it  very  naturally  denotes  the 
mountain  of  mourning,  as  was  specified  above ;  be- 
cause several  afflicting  events  had  taken  place  at  Me- 
(fiddo  ;  particularly  the  death  of  Josiah  ;  for  whom  a 
singular  public  mourning  was  instituted  with  great 
pomp  and  solemnity,  and  made  an  ordinance  in  Isra- 
el    In  consequence  of  this  event,  any  remarkable  pub- 
lic sorrow,  was,  among  the  Jews,  proverbially  compar- 
ed with  the  mourning  of  Megiddo.     Of  this  a  strong 
instance  is  furnished  by  the  prophet  Zechariah  ;  when 
he  compares  the  pre-eminent  sorrow  of  the  Jews,  after 
their  final  return  to  their  own  land,  for  their  sin  in  cru- 
cifying Christ,  to  the  mourning  instituted  for  Josiah, 
They  shall  mourn  for  him,  says  the  prophet,  as  one 
mourneth  for  his  only  son  ;  and  shall  he  in  bitterness 
for  him,  as  one  is  in  hitternss  for  his  first-horn.     In 
that  day  there  shall  he  a  great  mourning  in  Jerusalem, 
as  the  luournrng  of  Hadad  Rimmon  in  the  valley  of 
3Iegidc-ou. 
But  the  word  also  means  the  mountain  of  the  Oos- 


•^tMrnmimm  iiliiilP  •  - 


./  ■' 


(     34     ) 

pely  and  in  this  sense  denotes  a  place,  or  places,  where 
tlie  Gospel  has  been  customarily  preached  ;  a  meaning 
which,  as  you  well  know,  excludes  every  reference  to 

Judaa. 

As  a  literal  expression,  Armageddon  can  have  no 
meaning.  Meyiddo  was  a  city  in  a  plain,  or  flat  val- 
ley, at  the  foot  of  Mount  Carmel.  There  is,  therefore, 
no  such  place  as  the  mountain  Megiddo. 

The  great  day  o/  God  Almighty  denotes  here,  very 
obviously,  a  day  of  vengeance ;  a  day,  in  which  GOD 
will  singularly  manifest  himself ;  in  which  his  agency 
will  be  distinctly  seen,  and  reverentially  acknowledged. 
It  is  expressly  styled  a  day  of  war  ;  in  which  the  war 
is  his  own,  and  in  which  the  vengeance  will  be  mflict- 
ed  openly  on  his  enewiies.     Accordingly,  although 
these  malignant,  deceitful  spirits,  go  forth  to  the  kings 
of  the  earth,  and  of  the  whole  world,  to  gather  them  to 
the  battle  of  this  great  day,  it  is  yet  said,  that  God  him- 
self gathered  them  together  in  a  place,  called  in  the  He- 
brew tomjue,  Armageddon.     It  is,  therefore,  a  dispen- 
sation of  his  own,  in  which  these  profligate  deceivers 
are,  unwittingly,  instruments   of  accomplishing   his 
wrath  against  those  wicked  nations,  for  whom  it  has 
been  treasm'ed  up. 

Let  us  now  revert  to  the  history.  The  European 
war,  which  began  in  the  year  1792,  has  no  parallel  m 
the  history  of  man,  since  the  deluge ;  whether  we  re- 
gard the  number  of  nations  engaged  in  it,  the  number 
of  armies  in  the  field,  the  number  of  battles,  the  multi- 
tude  of  the  slain,  the  destruction  of  cities,  the  depopu- 
lation of  countries,  or  the  immense  ruin  and  devasta- 
tion,  brought  upon  the  world. 

For  a  long  time  it  was  almost  a  continued  succes- 
sion of  battlers  :  generally  fought  with  great  obstinacy. 


"X 


(     3.5     ) 

and  prodigious  slaughter.    General  Danican,  a  French 
officer,  declares,  that  three  millions  of  Frenchmen  pe- 
rished within  the  first  four  or  five  years  of  the  Revo- 
lution.   Of  the  inhabitants  of  La  Vendee  only,  a  single 
province  of  France,  700,000  fell  by  the  hand  of  vio- 
lence. From  the  close  of  that  period  to  the  present  time, 
thirteen  or  fourteen  years,  the  numljer  destroyed  can 
scarcely  be  much  less.  In  the  two  great  battles  of  Prus- 
sian Eylau  and  ^^ern,  they  lost,  within  a  small  num- 
ber, 100,000.  In  SpaiUf  and  Portuifal,  they  are  su[)po- 
sed  to  have  lost  300,000.    But  the  strongest  proof  of  the 
vast  extent  of  the  ruin,  so  far  as  France  herself  is  con- 
cerned, is  found  in  this  great  fact;  that,  notwithstand- 
ing the  annual  conscription,  amounting  to  a  prodigious 
number,  the  French  armies  are  sensibly  dimmished  -, 
and  the  Emperor  has,  for  a  series  of  years,  been  com- 
pelled to  constitute  his  forces,  in  a  great  degree,  of 
ather  nations.     At  the  same  time  he  has  anticipated,  in 
several  instances,  both  the  period  of  conscription,  and 
the  conscription   itself.     Notiung  could  prove  with 
more  certainty  the  immeasurable  waste  of  human  life 
in  this  mighty  and  populous  realm.     Accordingly, 
travellers  regularly  intbrm  us,  that  the  fields  of  i^mwee 
are  cultivated  chiefly  by  women  and  old  men. 

If  such  has  been  the  devastation  of  man  in  the  king- 
dom oi  France;  we  cannot  but  be  assured,  that  the  de- 
struction must  have  borne  a  melancholy  proportion  to 
it  in  many  other  countries.  The  soldiers  of  ItaJy, 
Switzerland,  Austria,  Germany,  Batavia,  Belgium, 
Spain,  and  Poland,  have  fought  in  her  armies ;  and 
shared  in  the  commoft«;sl^ughter.  All  these  coun- 
tries have,  also,  together  with  Prussia,  Russia,  and 
Turkey,  been  invaded  Iby-her :  some  of  them  several 
times.     Their  inhabita(itf<^|iq^e,  through  a  series  of 

■  %     "^ 
•  »^ 


(  3(5  ; 

campaigns,  foiiglit  against  licr  armies  ;  and  tlie  court- 
tries  Hk  luselvcs  have,  to  a  great  extent,  beefi  wasted 
and  (lestroved.     In  Gnmany  only,  it  has  been  com- 
puted, between  1  and  :^,  000, 0(H)  of  mankind  perished 
by  famine,  in  consequence  of  a  single  French  invasion. 
Spain  and    tortm^al  have  not  improbably  lost  from 
once  and  an  half  to  twice  the  number  of  the  French, 
who  have  fallen  in  their  country.     liussia  and  Turkey 
have  sacriticed  prodigious  numbers  of  their  inhabit- 
ants in  a  war  bei.ween  themselves.     Sweden  also  has 
sutierea  deeply.     It   will   be  no  excessive  estimate, 
therefore,  i;  we  sui)i)Ose  10,0000,000  of  mankind  to 
have  iiecome  victims  to  this  ovei-flowing  scourge  of 

heaven. 

It  is  declared  in  the  prophecy,  that,  these  deceivers 
shall  (JO  Jorth  to  the  kmgs  of  the  earth,  and  oj  the 
whole  world,  to  yather  them  together  to  this  great  bat- 
tle.    The  word  kings,  in  this  passage,  may,  with  the 
strictest   propriety,  be  considered  as  denoting  l.ing- 
donis.     Yet  it  desei-ves  our  particular  attention,  that 
the  kings  and  princes  of  Europe,  have,  m  a  far  great- 
er number  of  instances,  been  personally  engaged  in 
this  war,  than  in  any  other.     The  emperors  of  Aus- 
tria, France,  and  Russia  ;  the  brothers  of  them  all  -, 
the  princes  of  the  house  of  Bourbon ;  the  king  of 
Frussia,  and  his  brother;  several  of  the  British  prin- 
ces;  two  kings   of  Sweden;   the   various   reigning 
princes  of   Germany,  and  Italy ;    and  a  prodigious 
number  of  the  nobility  of  ail  these  countries ;  have 
been  personally  present  at  these  hostilities.     All,  also, 
have  been  allured,  or  compelled,  either  directly  or 
consequentially,  to  this  scene  of  destruction  by  tiies^ 
abandoned  men. 


{     37     ) 

IH'.or  ot  /  m,«  ha,  been  once  engaged  by  a  part  of 
tl.e  ,„me  men  to  embark  in  their  great^deC- 
2;.;./«^  Sa,b  was  seduced  to  his  ruin  by  their  mea«s 
The.r  emissaries    have    attempted    to    embroTTh^ 

reason  to  beheve,  have  raised  up  a  rebellion  in  Chi- 
««.  fo.  the  same  purpose.    Lately  they  have  set  on 

Ire*        ""'  ""'"''•P"y'  •'"^  "*""'«'•  '^  ««  "W.; 

oZ-^tl'/'  "",!'''•  ^"^  ""^  ■'"S'-  »"<•  kingdoms, 
war*    tl T""  ''«•■— barked  in  a  single 

centre.-  When,  since  men  were  upon  the  earth,  was 
there  »  nughty  an  earthquake,  an/so  great  ?  wZ 
what  pre-eminent  propriety  may  this  he  called  the 
Utlte  of  llu^  great  day  of  God  klmighty  »  • 

pr« .«  all  the  sources,  from  which  the  Romish 
empire  derived  Us  wealth,  strength,  and  safety,  W 
l^enjried  up,  especially  ty  being  di^erte/ini  other, 

All  the  branches  of  the  Hierarchy  have  in  this 
manner  been  withered.  The  pontiff  has  been  broken 
down;  forced  to  flee  for  his  lite;  taken;  confin^  i"  ' 
a  prison;  stripped  of  his  wealth,  power,  and  dignity  • 
persecuted;  insulted;  and  transforaied  frol  the 
mighty  ruler  of  Christendom,  into  a  poor,  depended 
besfgared  old  man.  I„  the  same  manner  Le  tW 
ecclesiastics  ,n  Spain,  Portugal,  Italy,  France,  and 

credness  of  their  character,  and  their  magical  mflu- 
enee ;   and  exposed  to  the  inroads  of  mere  hZi 


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\ 


force,  against  which  they  can  make  no  res.stanm- 
Whatcver  else  may  be  the  consequence  of  th«  tern- 
ble  conflict;  tJw  Romish  empire  is  ruined.  We  may, 
1  think,  fairly  consider  «Ae5fre«<  Voice  as  already  ut- 
tered ml  of  the  temple  of  heaven,  from  the  throne, 
mvim,,  "  It  is  doner  The  Hierarchy  is  rmned.- 
Nothing  remains  of  the  system  but  fragments :  and 
these,  in  the  ordinary  comsc  of  Providence,  can  never 

be  gathered  up.  , .  i    „f 

In  t),e  mean  time,  Christ  has  come  to  this  work  ot 

judgment  «*  a  thief ;  m  a  manner,  the  mo^^  ^""Iden 
ihe  most  astonishu.g,  the  most  ternble.     The  mo^ 
sanguine  mind,  the  merest  enthusiast,  could  not  m 
the  year  1790  have  dreamed,  that  such  a  revolution  n 
the  Romish  empire  could  have  been  accomplisheu 

within  22  years.  ,  j 

miy.     As  this  ureal  work  is  in  substance  done; 
the  Viali,  if  they  are  to  be  pmred  out  hereafter,  mil 
have  w,  object'  «»  «>'»<=''  their  Jbroe  may  be  employed. 
Almost  all  that  now  remains  of  this  work,  acco.;d, 
ing  to  the  language  of  these  prophecies,  is  «;.e  .»- 
flktim  of  those  additional  judgments,  mioh  they  m- 
M,  uU  11^  guUly  nations,  inhabUmff  ,ts  e«e 
dominims.    All  these  vials  are  pmired  out  npon  the 
Hie-archy.    Of  course,  this  dominion  mi^eMst.tn 
order  to  make  tU  fulfilment  of  these  propl^es  posst- 
hk.     But  its  existence  has  substantially  gone ;  and 
the  remaining  contents  of  the  seventh  vial,  which  I 
consider  as  now  in  effusion,  will  be  amply  sufficient 
to  finish  its  destruction. 

This  long  discussion,  which  I  consider  as  essen- 
tially  iuTolved  in  the  answer  to  the  question,  m  the 
text,  I  have  made  as  summary  as  1  could.     1  hope  ii 


\\, 


(     39     J 

will  be  found  not  destitute  of  instruction  to  those 
who  hear  me. 

The  next  great  division  of  this  answer,  respects  Me 
state  of  that  religim  which  has  been  so  mmderjully  as- 
sa,U,  and  which.  Hke  the  burmm,  bush,  has  never 
yet  been  consmned.     Here  it  is  to  be  observed, 

1st.  Thatreliykm  has,  in  several  pdrts  of  the 
Uimtian  nwld,  uumually  prevailed. 

This  observation  is  very  extensively  applicable  to 
our  own  country.    Sixteen  years  since,  a  revival  of  re- 
ligion commenced  in  the  neighbouring  town  of  Mil- 
/^rrf;  and  spread  throughout  a  considerable  portion  of 
1^  mhvb,tents.  This,  so  far  as  my  knowledge  extends, 
was  the  first  .nstance  of  the  same  nature  in  I\ewl 
Ennlatul,  for  many  yea.-s.  which  was  considerable 
enough  to  attract  the  public  attention.     About  the 
year  1752.  a  powerful  prevalence  of  vital  pielv,  wh.oh 
had  existed  for  12  or  15  years,  and  during  which 
converts  had  been  wonderfully  multiplied,  bath  here 
and  m  many  other  countries,  appeared  so  far  to  de- 
eline,  that  the  accessioi.s,  gained  by  the  Church,  were 
m  a  great  measure  single,  and  scarcely  observed  — 
In  the  year  17.55,  the  last  Canadian  war  b.-k.  out- 
and   contmued  eight  years.      I„    ,764,   that  which 
followed   the  peace  of  Paris,  our  pohl.ca.  dispute, 
with  Great- hntam  began;  and  the  tunnoil.  which 
they   occasioned,   increased  almost   regularly   till    it 
terminated  in  the  Revolut.onary   war.^    Th,s  began 
m  1775    .„d  continued  till  1783.     The  next  5  years 
the  inhabuants  of  the  United  States  were  in  continual 

rfi7««".r"'"""'"^  "'"'■■  8-«^<'™>»«"t-  At  length, 
.n  1788,  the  present  Co..  .itution.  having  been  adopt- 
ed the  present  s.Me.n  commcc,  d  .ts  operations; 
ana  in  a  ^ouu  u.^.ee  restored  oraer,  and  stability. 


rl 


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-f    40     ) 

to  the  public  affairs  of  our  country.     The  great  pVin- 
ciples,  upon  which  we  were  to  act  as  a  nation,  were, 
however,  to  be  settled  ;  and  the  minds  of  men  were 
to  a  ?reat  extent  engrossed  by  them ;  partly  on  ac- 
count of  their  novelty,  and  partly  on  account  of  Oieir 
importance.     War  is  not  less  ruinous  to  the  morals  ot 
a  community,  than  to  property  and  life.    The  effects 
of  both  the  wars,  which  have  been  mentioned,  were 
in  this  respect  eminently  malignant.     Peculiarly  is 
this  true  of  the  last.     It  unhinged  the  principles,  the 
morality,  and  the  religion,  of  this  country,  more  than 
could  have  been  done  by  a  peace  of  40  years.    The 
political  disputes,  which  followed  it,  had  also  a  very 
unfavourable  aspect  on  the  moral  interests  of  the  na- 
tion.    The  minds  of  men  were  engrossed  by  them ; 
and  their  hearts  drawn  away  from  their  religion,  and 
their  God.    The  comparative  importance  of  politics 
was  swollen  beyond  all  bounds  :  and  it  seemed  as  if 
men  had  forgotten,  in  many  instances,  that  they  were 
not  to  live  here  for  ever,  or  that  there  was  beyond  the 
grave  a  world  either  of  happiness  or  misery.     At  the 
close  of  this  bustling  period,  however.  Religion  began 
to  come  in  for  some  share  of  human  attention  j  and 
God,  in  his  boundless  mercy,  was  pleased  to  remem- 
her  those  with  compassion,  who  to  a  great  extent  had 
forgotten   Him.      The  flame,    once    kindled,    soon 
spread  through  a  considerable  part  of  the  land,  v  In- 
fidelity began  to  stop  her  mouth,  and  licentiousness  to 
exhibit  a  blush,  to  which  she  had  been  long  a  stran- 
ger.    Christians  awaked  j  ministers  were  invigorated ', 
5ie  house  of  God  was  extensively  filled ;  and   the 
ways  of  Zion,  in  a  great  measuie,  ceased  to  mourn, 
became  feiv  came  to  her  solemn  feasts.     lu  .\eW'tnc/' 
land,  and  in  several  other  countries  on  this  side  of  the 


: 


(    41     ) 

AildntiCy  times  of  refreshing  came  from  the  presence  of^ 
the  Lord. 

From  the  date  above  mentioned  to  the  present  hour, 
the  blessing  has  never  been  withdrawn.     In  two  le- 
markable  instances  it  has  visited  this  Seminary,  in 
Which  about  120  of  the  jouths,  who  had  come  to  it 
for  education,  entered  the   Church  of  Christ;  almost 
all  of  whom,  there  is  good  reason  to  believe,  are  now 
vessels  of  honour,  and  usefuhiess,  in  his  house.     The 
same  work  is  still  going  on  prosperously  in  several 
parts  of  the  county  of  Liichjield,  in  this  State,  and  in 
several  others  of  Massachusetts  and  New-Hampsiire. 
It  is  also  extending  itself  elsewhere,  particularly  in 
the  State  of  New-  York. 

What  has  been  so  happily  begun,  here,  has  been  ex- 
tensively realized,  also,  in  Great-Britain.  The  friends 
of  religion  in  that  island,  exult  in  a  very  important 
change  in  their  moral  circumstances;  and,  while  they 
mention   many  things  to  be  lamented,  congratulate 
themselves,  and  the  public,  on  many  other  things,  as 
solid  foundations  of  rejoicing.     The  enemies,  also,  of 
vital  piety  complain  of  this  fact  in  the  same  direct 
manner ;  and  the  evidence  derived  from  both,  is  deci- 
sive.    The  change,  thercj  is  widely  extended ;  and 
is  continually  spreading  to  a  still  greater,  and  greate. 
extent.     The  best  hopes  may,  therefore,  be  entertained 
concerning  it,  by  all  who  love  the  Gospel. 

In  the  year  1792,  was  formed  in  England,  a  Society 
Styled  the  Baptist  Missionary  Society;  and  in  the 
year  1795,  another  Society  of  the  same  nature;  com- 
prising Christians  of  various  denominations,  and  styl, 
ed  the  London  Missionary  Society:  both  intended 
for  the  purpose  of  Christianizing  the  Heathen.  Soon 
after,  several  otliers  were  formed  also;  particularly, 

0 


(     42     ) 
the  Edinburgh  Missionary  Society,  and  the  Society  for 
Missions  to  Africa  and  the  East.     In  this  honourable 
train  our  own  country  soon  followed ;  and  raised  up 
a  numerous  succession   of  Missionary  societies,  for 
the  purpose  of  supplying  the  wants  of  our  brethren 
in  the  new-settlements,  and  christianizing  the  Indians 
on  our  borders.     To  these  have  been  lately  added  a 
considerable  number  of  Societies,  established  lor  the 
purpose  of  sending  Missionaries  to  foreign  countries  ; 
and  this  number  is  continually  increasing. 

In  the  year  1804,  a  society  was  formed  in  London, 
for  the  purpose  of  sending  the  Bible,  in  the  ditierent 
languacres  of  mankind,  into  tiie  countries  where  those 
languages  are  spoken,  named  the  British  and  Foreiyn 
Bible  ^society.     To  this  have  been  added  auxiliary  so- 
cieties  m  many  parts  of  Great- britmn,  in  Ireland, 
and  in  several  countries  of  Europe :  and  seventeen 
such  societies  have  been   formed   in  the   American 
States.     One  also  has  risen  up  at  Calcutta,^ 

The  exertions,  made  by  these  Missionary  and  Bi- 
ble Societies,  form  a  new  aera  in  the  history  of  Chris^ 
tianity.     It  will  be  renienibered,  that  four  years  be- 
fore the  first  distinguished  revival  of  rehgion  com- 
menced in  this  state,  the  first  of  these  Missionary  So- 
cieties was  formed ;  and,  eight  years  afterwards,  th^ 
British  and  Foreiyn  Bible  Society,  the  parent  of  all 
the  rest.     Within  tliese  20  years,  more  has  been  done 
to  spread  the  Gospel  among  those,  who  did  not  enjoy 
its  blessings,  than  has  probably  been  done  in  the  two 
preceding  ceiituiies ;  more,  unless  we  are  to  except 
the  times  of  the  Reformation,  than  has  been  done 
since  the  early  ages  of  Christianity.     Missions  have 
been  formed  in  the  isles  of  the  Southern  Ocean,  m 
JSew-HoUand,  in  China,  m  the  Birman  Empire  j  m 


(     43     ) 

the  island  of  Cet/lon,  in  many  parts  of  Hindostan,  in 
Tariari/,  in  many  parts  of  Africa^  on  the  southern 
•continent  of  Americtty  in  the  West-Indies,  in  Nova- 
Scotia,  Canada^  the  country  of  Labrador,  and  Green- 
land. Ahiiost  all  these  have  met  with  some  success, 
and  several  of  them  witli  much.  The  prospect  of 
success,  also,  which  was  at  first  faint  and  doubtful, 
has  been  shining  more  and  more,  as  there  is  reason  to 
hope,  unto  the  perfect  day. 

Bibles  also,  and  Testaments,  have  been  distributed 
already  in  such  numbers,  and  in  such  a  variety  of 
languages,  as  ahiiost  exceeds  belief.  What  is  remark- 
able, many  Roman  Catholic  ministers  have  readily 
permitted  the  free  use  of  the  Bible  to  the  people  un- 
der their  charge ;  and,  what  is  still  more  remarkable, 
one  Bible  Society  has  been  formed  among  Catholics. 

In  the  mean  time,  the  Scriptures  have  been  trans- 
lated, either  partially  or  wholly,  into  19  Asiatic  lan- 
guages. Into  four  of  them,  the  whole  Bible ;  into  eight 
more,  the  whole  New  Testament ;  and  a  part  of  the 
Old,  and  the  whole  New  Testament,  into  two  more. 
In  ten  of  these  languages,  the  New  Testament  is 
either  in  the  press,  or  has  been  printed.  In  one  of 
them,  the  whole  Bible,  and  three  editions  of  the  New 
Testament ;  in  another,  two  editions  of  the  Gospel ; 
and  in  several  others,  parts  of  the  Old  Testament. — 
In  this  manner,  the  Scriptures  have  been  actually- 
sent  in  their  various  languages  to  every  nation  in  Eu- 
rope, except  the  Turks;  and,  if  I  mistake  not,  a 
translation  of  them  into  the  Turkish  language  is  in 
good  forwardness.  They  have  also  been  distributed 
into  various  pai-ts  of  Asia,  Africa,  and  of  both  North 
and  South  America.  The  liberality,  zeal,  and  activi- 
tvj  with  which  all  this  has  been  accomplished,  has  been 


(     44     ) 

•wonderful ;  and,  what,  pc  ha|>s  is  no  less  wonderful, 
it  has  beeu  regularly  increasing  to  tlie  present  hour. 
St.  i^md  directed  the  T Hcsstdvnians  to  pray,  that  the 
word  of  the  Lord  rnUfht  have  free  coursCy  and  he  glori- 
fid;  or,  as  it  is  in  the  oriyiyMl,  mi()ht  run,  and  he 
giorifed;    even   as   it  was  among   themselves.     The 
good  men,  who  are  now  living,  who  have  so  often 
prayed  for  this  blessing,  behold  their  prayers  answer- 
ed in   a  manner  new,   singular,  most   delightful  to 
themselves,  and  most  g.orious  to  then-  Creator.     JSopj 
he  sendeth  forth  his  commandment  upon  earth  ;  his 
word  runneth  very  swiftly  ;  to  the  amazement  of  the 
most  sangunie,  and  to  the   unutterable  joy    of  the 
virtuous.     Now,  also,  many  run  to  and  fro,  accordnig 
to  the  promise,  made  to  Daniel;  and  knowledge  is 
wonderfully  increased ;  and  many  are  purified  and 

7nade  while. 

These  things  Christianity  has  accomphshed,  or  ra^ 
ther  Gop  has  accomplished  them  for  her,  in  this  day 
of  darkness  and  gloominess,  of  clouds  and  thick  dark* 

ness. 

Nor  ought  any  Watchman  to  forget,  on  such  an 
occasion  as  the  present,  the  mighty  change  in  human 
affairs,  accomplished  by  the  final  termination  of  that 
disgrace  to  the  name  of  man,  that  insult  to  Heaven, 
the  African  lave-trade.  This  is  a  glorious  proof, 
that  God  has  not  forgotten  to  be  gracious  to  the  pre^ 
sent  generation  of  mankind.  Accordingly,  he  has  at 
the  very  time,  when  this  vast  reformation  was  ac** 
complished,  and  in  that  very  nation,  by  which  it  was 
first  carried  into  final  execution,  discovered  the  means, 
in  the  Jennerian  innoculation,  of  preserving,  annually 
the  lives  of  2,000,000  of  mankind, 


ra^ 


(    45    ) 

Suoh  is  a  summary  view  of  the  brighter  parts  of 
ftjs  .mmensely  interesting  scene.    Let%s  n^tsee 
whether  we  may  not  derive  from  it  some  proIaWe 
nstr„ct,o„  to  ourselves.      We  have  many  Cgs  to 
Jear,  and  some,  I  trust,  to  hope.  ^ 

m  I  .  °^  """' '"' '''«  S^'u^ral  aspect  of  pro- 
Phecy   and  of «/«  ,i„,es.     If  I  am  right  in  my  e.pos! 

rialt^Zjr'^'  ''^  'erribie  j;.dgmenfs,7j  h 
the  last  ot  them  denounces,  are  not  yet  finished;  and 
the  language,  m  which  these  are  conveyed  i,  suT 
cently  alarming  to  shake  the  stoutest  hea^  S„eh  et 
aotly  ,s  mstateofthing^^nhe  present  moment.  The" 
war,  the  slaughter,  the  devastation,  the  terror,  the  bo„! 

will  be  the  fZS    ar  e   oTthriS    ^ ""  .'^^IT' 
Omniscient,  can  foresee,     ^rt  "s    I^^d  ^^  ! 

W/o  /«,M  A«<w»  </,e  ™,„rf  oft/ie  Lord?  Who  luUh 
heenh.  counsellor?  W;,o  beside Hrs  Spirit,  canse^ch 
il^deep  thngs  of  Goj,?"  It  is  enough for\u  to7^ 
that,  when  everu  itln«f/  >h„ii  a  ,  "now, 

fiod  win  h       «:        ,"^"  '"^  ""'  "^^»''«'.  the  Pe- 
Wietches,  who  every  where  say  to  themselves, «  Peace  " 

mTu  a  fir  r  T  ''"'*""'  '""'"••"    Thebreach. 
small  at  firsi,  often  becomes  a  vast  chasm,  and  the  lit- 


(    46    ) 
tie  siveam.  -Wch  irickled  through  it,  swells  into  a  de- 

*"'The  second  of  these  reasons  is,  U.  sinful  eharac^r 
"^^^  our  land  are  -^l^-o/^tr^ 

to  „s.  as  a  P-f^^f  J-„^„  ,y  ,v.ieh  it  was  .onned. 
existence.      Ih*-  ^onve         '  ^  j,;^  b,essnig 

„ever  asked.  --«  once,  h  s  tect.^  J_^^^,  „„,  ,.,,,„. 
„pon  their  I'^bours      Thus  w  ^.^^^^^^  ^^^    ^ 

a,  existence  «-'«'^  ^^^^   'Vion  to  render  h.m  the 

^"''  '  ::l:7o'/^r-S:l.  and  the  gratitude, 
rrrdtr^:— a.len.ercies.hadheen»ore 

^iHh^n^rt^rrCe  rotation  to  say  that     ■ 

-  order  ----Cri^r^^^^^^ 
f„l  sm ;  and  are  a  d^^P  ^^"-^    \^^^  j,  that  I 

ter  of  our  country    ^'^^^J^^^^Jl  .-efer,  even 
intend  m  this,  oi  in  anj  o  ^.^ 

remotely,  to  any  P-^'-^^  P^C  existed.     I  stand 
.hich  now  eK.sts.  or  ha.  ».;i  '^o  ^^^^      ^^. ^^^ 

tend  not  to  dishonour  Him.  nor  to  tntte  away 
emu  season,  in  reciting  the  feelings  of  ^P  «'^"'   "^*^ 

Sfnl  imputations,  sneers,  and  oWoc|«y.ot  P«rty;  P-t. 
Our  whole  business  lies  with  our  sms,  aod  the  jud. 


de- 
cker 
Re- 
l  the 
aiost 
lind. 
letl^-    ^* 
jrcies 
of  his 
rmed, 
issiiig,' 
atiou- 

OD.   1 

im  the 
titude, 
imore 

y,  that 
ledjor, 
which, 
!  made, 
[  dread- 
cliarac- 
3,  that  I 
■er,  even 
dispute, 
I  stand 
While, 
sely  I  in- 
^  this  so- 
,  and  the 
rty-spivit. 
the  judg- 


(     47     ) 

ments  of  God     Let  me  warn  all,  who  hear  me,  not 
to  spend  this  day  in  secretly  quarrelling  with  their 
neighbours,  or  tl  .,r  goveiTirnent.     Let  me  warn  eve- 
ry one  to  mourn  for  his  own  sins,  and  those  of  his 
country ;  aud  to  tremble  at  the  mighty  hand  of  Goi>. 
llm  very  party^spirit  itself ,  i\us  hostility  between 
citizens  of  the  same  country,  between  neighbour  and 
neighbour,  fnend  and  friend,  nay,  often  between  bro- 
.    ther  and  brother,  father  and  son ;  is  a  great  and  dread- 
lulevil;  a  smoke  in  the  nostrils  of  Jehovah;  an 
ab&niination,  which  he  cannot  away  with.     Think  how 
many  unkind  thoughts,  how  many  slanders,  how  ma- 
ny malignant  threatenings,  have  been  vented  l,y  ihis 
disposition  against  persons  oi an  opposite  party;  not 
one   of  which    in  a  great  proportion    of  instances, 
would  perhaps  have  been  thought  of,  had  the  objects  of 
them  been  of  our  own.     In  this  respect  we  do  less,  and 
worse,  than  pvMicans  and  sinners. 

The  eayerncss,  with  which  wealth  is  coveted,  and 
sought,  hy  our  countrymen,  is  another  deplorable  proof 

^  How  often  is  that  glorious,  and  fearful  name,  Je, 
HOVAH  OUR  God,  profaned  in  our  streets  f 

To  what  a  terrible  extent  has  the  brutal  sin  of 
drunkenness  spread  through  our  land  !  To  such  an 
extent,  that  most,  if  not  all,  of  those  ecclesiastical  bo- 
dies, which  preside  over  extensive  divisions  of  the 
Christian  Church  in  this  country,  have  thought  it  ne- 
cessary  to  enter  into  a  course  of  public,  solemn  mea- 
sures, for  the  purpose  of  instituting  a  general,  and  effi- 
cacious, resistance  to  its  progress. 

Falsehood  also,  in  all  its  various  forms,  is,  unless  I 
am  deceived,  a  more  wlcfely  extended,  and  dreadful- 


(    48    ) 
•1    .li^n  anv   of  those  whicli  1  liilv« 
^  rT^Thl  *  the  chLcter.  to  «h.ch  cuslo.- 

4?h   .«  some  instances,  actually  follows  them. 

It  thlslme time, how  mdely  have  our  elecUons,  m  a 
...ItiTcases,  veered  from  the  ,e,u>ur  oj  our  na- 
rli*«e  Consmafons ;  from  o-^'S'-J^S^ 
-ions-  from  all  that  is  free,  and  unbiassed  ,  ana  trom 
ru'emendous  obligafon.   assumed  in   the  oath  of 

Xotofint  the  eye  pained,  and  the  soui  wounded 
,„  Se  autk  by  he  dLIl  recitals  offaMonable  mur- 
r  p'riated  in  defiance  of  all  laws  of  God  and 
1:  -Cd  yet  left  unpunished  by  the  very  govern- 
Tnt.  M  is  thus  insulted  to  its  face  ?  Kemember, 
T  r^  „  koti,  said  The  hmd  cannot  be  cleansed  oj 
r  S.  ti.  S  J  tUr^n, «  %  M«  » W  ofU. 

"*  To'ie'this  painful  catalogue,  already  long,  and un. 
.         ,!rlle  of  beino- made  much  longer,  I  observe. 

leason  to  oei        ,  ^      ^^^^^^^^  „^,. 

,ftm^..   saith  JEHOV  A    ,      _      ^         ^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^ 

cd  on  such  a  nation,  as  tms .  ,'     ,  ,,  .,„,  ,,„„-.£ 

Lrkmed  to  my  cmmnandmenU  :  then  lu.d  thy  peace 
;:::«!«  n^erind  tMjrioUteousness,as  tl.  .aces  oJ 

"'Vre  third  of  these  reason^  js  found  in  o..- peculiar 


(     4^     ) 
1.  yf  great  part  ofmir  countrymen  believe  the  war  m 
w;/«c/«  we  are  enyagexU  to  be  unnecessary  and  unjust 
i  his  IS  true  of  many  members  of  the  national  Leffis- 
lature;  of  a  great  multitude  of  members,  belonging  to 
the  state  Legislatures;  and  of  a  vast  multitude  of  the 
inl.abilants,  embodied  in  both  of  the  great  political  par- 
ties.     It  IS  not  my  province  to  determine  whether  this 
opinion  IS  just,  or  unjust.     That  a  war  should  exist 
and  yel  such  an  opinion  prevail  so  extensively,  cannot 
but  be  unhappy.     On  the  part  of  all,  by  whom  it  is  re- 
ceived.  It  cannot  but  embarras  their  consciences,  their 
conduct,  and  even  their  prayers.     That  the   nation 
with  whom  we  are  at  war,  has  done  us  repeated  miu- 
ries,  IS  admitted  on  all  hands.     Still  the  questions  re- 
cur, and  are  to  be  answered  ;  whether  our  own  hands 
are  clean ;  whether  we  have  used  all  the  measures 
to  preserve  peace,  which  are  ilemanded  of  a  Christian 
nation ;  and  whether  the  war  promises  to  us  any  real 
good,  sufficiently  important  to  compensate  for  the  los» 
of  life,  property,  and  comfort,  which  it  must  necessari- 
ly  involve ;  for  the  innumerable  sins,  which  it  will  oc 
casion ;  and  for  the  varied  and  manifold  evils,  which 
It  will  produce.     When  we  think  how  great  must  be 
that  loss,  and  how  many  those  sins  and  miseries ;  the 
subject  becomes  solemn,  painful,  and  melancholy,  to  a 
sober  man,  in  a  degree  which  it  will  be  difficult  to  as- 
sign. 

2%.  We  have  begun  this  war,  almost  without  any 
preparation.  *^ 

In  ancient  times  it  was  determined  by  very  hjo-h 
authority  to  be  wise  for  him,  who  was  about  to  build  a 
tower,  or  going  to  make  war,  to  sit  dmvnjirst  and  count 
the  cost,  whether  he  had  sufficient  to  tinish  the  under- 
taking. 


{  ^  ) 

■.    t^i  ,11  in  be  <ihk  seriously 
1   Vui-  envimi  is  so  sitmtnl,  o*  «"  "<  -^ 

lo  (liMess  us,  mlh  ItUle  exp<-»^'h 

poi'Wf-  .    ,•     J    i„  a  great  meamire, 

will,  cities  and  vlkge  ,  mclmlm       g    ^ J^^     ^^^^ 

wealth,  and  not  a  ^'"V"^/.  °"  'Ld.  with  littk  M- 
.,f  „ese  may  be  --Jed,  and  dost      ed  ^^^^, 

,ic„lty.     A  vast  mass  of  on    « ope  ty  ^^^.^^^ 

on  the  ocean,  or  lying  m  the  ''»"^"""  ,.     ,,„fortanate 
The  exposure  of  this  property,  and  of  the  untortun 
"n,  destined  to  convey  it  homeward,  need  not 
specified.  f^j.  f,<,„  2000 

Our  norlhem  /';"  >«'  J^'^^^  j^ ;,  settled,  and  every 
™nes.    A  <'°7'f_-;''\Xl  of  the  enemy.    A  great 

Sslnhe^ie^.  ^v.th  v^hom,  unhappily,  .e  are 

-TLrBt;'  ™i.i  to  have  10,000  black  troops, 
.ulthe  Soaniards,  ,vith  whom  abo  we  are  co.W- 
aim  mc  ^,  Wpst-Indian  islands.     1  nese 

ing,  5.000  more,  m  the  "^f^^^^^  regiments, 
men  have  long  been  formed  mto  mU.t    y      ^ 

and  inured  to  a  ^t^i*  ""^'^^f^^t .  possible  to 
,,e  landed  in  East-Flor.da;  •' --'J^*^;J„bers  the 
predict  the  consequences.     H^J",.^^^  population. 

Th.  /-  *"  '-"^.St »  **»«»•. 


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(    61     ) 

«  for  help,  to  slrengtlu'ii  themselves  in  the  strcnjjth 
"  of  PImraoh,  and  to  tiust  in  the  shadow  of  Egypt. — 
«*  When  the  Lord  shall  stretch  out  his  hand,  both  he 
that  helpeth  shall  fall,  and  he  that  is  holpen  shaU 
fall  down,  and  they  shall  all  fail  together." 
iLgi/pt  and  Assyria  were  the  chief  enemies  of  Gou, 
and  his  Church,  in  ancient  times.     In  modern  times, 
the  chief  enemy  of  both,  has  been  the  Uomish  empire. 
Almost  all  the  reasons,  which  forbade  the  Jens  to 
unite  with  Etjypt  and  Assyria^  forbid  us  to  unite  with 
this  empire.     Some  exist,  and  operate,  in  a  still  high- 
er  degree  :  and  some  can  be  alleged  in  our  case, 
which  could  not  be  urged  m  theirs.     Speaking  of  the 
people  of  Canaan,  God  says  to  the  Israelites^  "  Thou 
"  shalt  make  no  covenant  with  them:"  And  agani, 
"  Take  heed  to  thyself,  lest  thou  make  a  covenant 
«  with  the  people  of  the  land,  whither  thou  goest, 
♦*  lest  it  be  for  a  snare  in  the  midst  of  thee."     Of  the 
kinffdom  of  Israel^  Hosea  said,  "  Ephraim  feedeth 
"  on  wind,  and  folio weth  after  the  east  wind.     He 
"  daily  increaseth  lies,  and  desolation;  and  they  do 
"  make  a  covenant  with  the    Assyrians,  and  oil  is 
«  carried  into  Egypt :"  i.  e.  precious  ointments,  des- 
tined as  a  present  to  purchase  the  friendship  of  Pha- 
raoh.    The  alliances,  here  spoken  of,  were  to  the  Is- 
raelites  means  of  their  ruin.     In  the  like  manner, 
speaking  of  the  present  times,  and  of  the  spiritual  Ba- 
hi/ Ion   or  Romish  empire,  St.  John  says,   "  And    I 
heard   another  voice  from   heaven,  saying.  Come 
out  of  her,  my  people,  that  ye  be  not  partakers  of 
her  sins,  and  that  ye  receive  not  of  her  plagues : 
"  for  her  sins  have  reached  unto  heaven  ;  and  God 
"  hath  remembered  her  iniquities."     This  solemn  in- 


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(  5^  ) 

junction  every  Christian  will  rei^ard  with  the  deepest 
concern,  and  obey  with  the  most  scrupulous  exactness, 
The  state  o<  facts  is,  however,  such,  that  the  com- 
mand, important  as  it  is,  would  hardly  seem  necessary. 
France  is  the  chief  division  of  this  e^npire ;  and  their 
knig'  has  long  snice  been  named  the  eldest  son  of  the 
Church.     At  the  present  time,  France  is,  in  a  sense, 
almost  the  whole  of  this  empire.     Every  protestant 
nation,  which  has  disobeyed  this  command,  and  allied 
itself  to  this  antichristian  power,  has  received  of  her 
plagues ;  and  extensively  partahen,  also,  of  her  sins, 
This,  peculiarly,  has  been  the  crime,  and  the  ruin,  of 
Geneva^    Switzerland,    Holland,    Prussia,   and   the 
Protestant  States  in   Germany.     Reason,  theiefore, 
and  experience,  as  well  as  revelation,  write  our  duty 
with  sun-beams. 

On  this  subject  my  feelings  are  inexpressible.  To 
ally  America  to  France,  is  to  chain  living  health  and 
beauty,  to  a  corpse  dissolving  with  the  plague.  The 
evils,  which  we  have  already  suffered  from  this  im- 
pure and  monstrous  connexion,  are  terrible  omens  of 
the  destruction,  which  we  are  to  expect  from  a  con- 
nexion still  more  intimate.  The  horrors  of  war,  com- 
pared with  it,  are  mere  amusement.  The  touch  of 
France  is  pollution.     Her  embrace  is  death. 

The  end  of  all  these  observations  is  to  warn,  to  re- 
buke, and  to  reclaim ;  to  persuade  to  repentance,  and 
to  effectuate  reformation.  **  At  what  instant,'"  saith 
God,  "  /  sliall  speak  concerning  a  nation,  to  pluck  up, 
and  to  pull  down,  and  to  destroy  it;  if  that  nation 
turn  from  their  evil,  1  will  repent  of  the  evil,  which  / 
thought  to  do  unto  them.''  The  way  of  safety  is,  thercr 
fore,  a  high-way  ;  and  wayfaring  men,  though  fools, 
need  not  err  t/ierein.    Repentance  and  reformation 


fi/icer « 

^'nto  caj 

They  i 

none  wt 

thing.  J 

man  boi 

The, 


t"'  ■<.ix.it    , 


(    63    ) 

2  "Sir'*'  "'  "'*'  ^"''^'^^'  «■««  happy  ^ 
^ur  great  duty,  as  tauffht  in  the  teirt  i.  *     •    ^ — 

concerning,  our  sin  and  dL^er.  olZ  o  1^"^ 
«--«  back  to  the  obedience  of  Ws  ;■„  ""* 

happiness?     7/,..-  !       *ieedum,  virtue,  and 

k.n^do«s;  which  once,  like  tht";daror/T  '''" 
eM  themselves  „l^e  all  the  tr^stthl^^I""'^- 
"'"^raeir  shadow,  d^ell  greJ  Zl^  tf^l  ""-^ 
»re  blasted  and  ^thered.  'Jhe^Zl  ^^  ^^"^ 
of  the  nations,  have  cu  thioffZZlL  '^""' 
the  earth  are  g^  d^  fy^,  tl^irltt  ^"^^  "-^ 
earth  has  shaken  „,  ,1       ^'j"*'^  shadow;  and  the 

c.t.es.     The,  W bee„ .«„.eSlv,Itl;' V" 
goods  Itave  become  n  h^u.        j  .,   .'"'""'«*•   tlmr 

tion.      mherTZl  l^!^'  't'"  '""'"^  «  '^'ola- 

,  ""^^  ^i^e  her  prmces and  nobles'-'  «»a  jj 
Me  Lord  of  hosts  hath  taken  ar.au  tLn,iaht' 
the  man  of  roar,  the  _^e  and  thep^o,7tl  """' 
dent  and  the  ancient  fho  ^     »      '^'^^  prophety  the  prw 

nourable  manZXt^ZT  tff  "'^  '^  "- 
tificer  an4  the  eloquent  oraZ'j^r  tjT"'  "" 
'nto  eapti^ty;  'heir  priests.  an4t  Z ^To::!^ 
Ihey  l^ve  calkd  their  rubles  to  the  kZ^^    T' 

.Jf.'!^'  ■"  "^'"h  -"•  '«t  is  fallen,  ,s  a  d„..  .. 
nu....   .day  of  trmMe  and  distress;  a  d^  of 


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(    64    ) 

...    u,i«»     IV  is  th,  Aty  of  the  Urd'" 

H^  earth  is  ff'f^^^'j,^  conelh  cut  of  Us  place, 
i^ly.  F'^^'^i^Zf^th^r iniquity!  tofmn^ 
1op«nish  the  '^"'^["^^ZhUh  are  <m  hiyh,  ««<*  *'•* 
Vfte  Ao.«»  of  the  high  o^'f''^^^"'p„  His  i»rf%»«- 
hngs  of  the  earth  »p<m  '**/f  .J  „j^„  all  their 

^ThaiU,^s,firea^^^^i<-'^-^^  „,  „,, 

'  What,  in  this  ^'fl^^;X  „f  chariots,  and  of 
Shall  «e  *«««  i»  ^^^tmt  ?    ««•«  "*  '^^ 

/ortrm;  oar  God;  •«  /"f^  «^  ,,.^  y^fe,,  „«d 

/rom  t/te  "»"«^  fTL  afraid /""r  «*«  '<"^»''  ^S* 
„i,/i. ;  nor/or  t**  -^  .f  ^Wki'^  i  ««"•  /^  '** 

,MlfaU  at  thy  «de,  ««d '«J^^  -^     ordj/  «f 


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tvith  all 

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to  anger^ 
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